Abstract. In a largely heuristic but fascinating recent paper, Hu and Meyer have given a "formula" for the Feynman integral of a random variable / on Wiener space in terms of the expansion of / in Wiener chaos. The surprising properties of scaling in Wiener space make the problem of rigorously connecting this formula with the usual definition of the analytic Feynman integral a subtle one. One of the main tools in carrying this out is our definition of the 'natural extension' of pth homogeneous chaos in terms of the 'scale-invariant lifting' of p-forms on "the white noise space L2(R+) connected with Wiener space. The key result in our development says that if fp is a symmetric function in L2(W+) and Vp(fp) is the associated p-form on L2(R+), then ifp(fp) has a scaled L2-lifting if and only if the ' kth limiting trace' of fp exists for k = 0, 1, ... , [p/2]. This necessary and sufficient condition for the lifting of a p-fonn on white noise space to a random variable on Wiener space is a worthwhile contribution to white noise theory apart from any connection with the Feynman integral since p-forms play a role in white noise calculus analogous to the role played by pth homogeneous chaos in Wiener calculus.Various Âż-traces arise naturally in this subject; we study some of their properties and relationships. The limiting A:-trace plays the most essential role for us.