In this Phys.SE answer it is discussed that Feynman path integrals sums amplitudes for all possible paths, including those that are not time-like. If you take the momentum-space path integrals, I would naively expect that such space-like coordinate paths would contribute an imaginary momentum in the momentum-space path integral, that would result in evanescent exponentially decaying amplitudes outside the light-cone.
Is this a correct interpretation and/or expectation to have? furthermore, In the momentum propagator integrals discussed in the lecture notes Feynman Diagrams for Beginners (PDF) by Kresimir Kumericki, the integrands are $d^3 k$, so it seems that they cover the whole 3D real momentum space, which seems to me to be restricted inside the light-cone (by nature of it being real). This confuses me because it seems to contradict the idea that all paths are included in the integral. What am I missing?
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