Contents:

• Path Integrals and Quantum Mechanics:
• Semiclassical Quantum Mechanics: A Path-Integral Approach (B R Holstein)
• Conjecture on the Reality of Spectra of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (C M Bender et al.)
• Time-Transformation Approach to q-Deformed Objects (A Inomata)
• Characterizing Volume Forms (P Cartier et al.)
• Vassiliev Invariants and Functional Integration (L H Kauffman)
• Quantum Field Theory:
• Dynamical Fermion Masses Under the Influence of Kaluza–Klein Fermions in Randall–Sundrum Background (H Abe et al.)
• From Z Operator to SO(10), Neutrino Oscillations, and Fermi–Dirac Functions for Quark Parton Distributions (F Buccella)
• Variational Perturbation Theory:
• Note on the Path-Integral Variational Approach in Many-Body Theory (J T Devreese)
• Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena:
• Nanosymptotic Critical Behavior from Field Theory (C Bagnuls & C Bervillier)
• From Superfluid ³He to Triplet Superconductor Sr₂RuO₄ (K Maki & H Won)
• Topological Defects, Strings, and Membranes:
• Description of Vorticity by Grassmann Variables and an Extension to Supersymmetry (R Jackiw)
• Non-Equilibrium Worldline Duality in Condensed Matter (R J Rivers)
• Random Paths and Surfaces with Rigidity (B Durhuus)
• Path Integrals in Quantum Cosmology (C Kiefer)
• and other papers

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