Kurt Symanzik—a stable fixed point beyond triviality

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/1/L02zbMATH Open1085.81004arXivhep-th/0506142OpenAlexW2163237172MaRDI QIDQ3376064FDOQ3376064

Authors: Frieder Kleefeld 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1970 Kurt Symanzik proposed a "precarious" phi**4-theory with a negative quartic coupling constant as a valid candidate for an asymptotically free theory of strong interactions. Symanzik's deep insight in the non-trivial properties of this theory has been overruled since then by the Hermitian intuition of generations of scientists, who considered or consider this actually non-Hermitian highly important theory to be unstable. This short - certainly controversial - communication tries to shed some light on the historical and formalistic context of Symanzik's theory in order to sharpen our (quantum) intuition about non-perturbative theoretical physics between (non)triviality and asymptotic freedom.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506142

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03)

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