a Critical History of Renormalization
Abstract
The history of renormalization is reviewed with a critical eye, starting with Lorentz's theory of radiation damping, through perturbative QED with Dyson, Gell-Mann and Low, and others, to Wilson's formulation and Polchinski's functional equation, and applications to "triviality," and dark energy in cosmology.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics A
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1310.5533
- Bibcode:
- 2013IJMPA..2830050H
- Keywords:
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- Renormalization;
- quantum electrodynamics;
- quantum field theory;
- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- To the memory of Kenneth G. Wilson (1936--2013)