CHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS VOL 38, No.3-II JUNE 2000

Monte Carlo Methods for Quantum Field Theory

A. D. Kennedy

Maxwell Institute, The University of Edinburgh

(Received Mar. 14, 2000)

We present a review of some possibly interesting algorithmic techniques for the non-expert. We shall briefly survey a method for making Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) exact, the instabilities in symplectic integrators, exact noisy algorithms, Chebyshev (minimax) polynomial and rational approximations, and their relevance to dynamical GW fermions.

PACS. 11.15.Ha - Lattice gauge theory.
PACS. 11.30.Rd - Chiral symmetries.
PACS. 11.30.Fs - Global symmetries.

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