A Critical History of Renormalization
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⚛️ physics.hist-ph
hep-phhep-th
keywords
criticalhistoryrenormalizationapplicationscosmologydampingdarkdyson
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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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