Stochastic Quantization

This is a textbook on shastic quantization which was originally proposed by G. Parisi and Y. S. Wu in 1981 and then developed by many workers. I assume that the reader has finished a standard course in quantum field theory. The Parisi-Wu shastic quantization method gives quantum mechanics as the thermal-equilibrium limit of a hypothetical shastic process with respect to some fictitious time other than ordinary time. We can consider this to be a third method of quantization; remarkably diffe...