REMINISCENCES ABOUT MANY PITFALLS AND SOME SUCCESSES OF QFT WITHIN THE LAST THREE DECADES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X95000268zbMATH Open0884.47057MaRDI QIDQ4859062FDOQ4859062

Authors Bert Schroer 

Publication date 20 December 1995

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9410085

zbMATH Keywords

causalityalgebraic quantum field theorylocalization of states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Abstract: Laymen and sometimes even physicists think of natural sciences, in particular of theoretical and mathematical physics often as subjects, which unfold according to an intrinsic logical pattern, with the limitations being set only by the conceptual and (in case of mathematical physics) mathematical developments of the times. This view certainly cannot be maintained in view of the present stagnation and crisis which in particular affects QFT, an area which in the past has been most innovating and fruitful, also in relation to other important areas of theoretical physics.

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