A Critical History of Renormalization

Published 21 Oct 2013 in physics.hist-ph, hep-ph, and hep-th | (1310.5533v1)

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 & Low, and others, to Wilson's formulation and Polchinski's functional equation, and applications to "triviality", and dark energy in cosmology.

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Kerson Huang

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