Broken bootstraps -- The rise and fall of a research programme

DOI10.1007/S10701-004-2011-9MaRDI QIDQ816135zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Redhead

Publication date 20 February 2006

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-004-2011-9

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapnuclear democracyS matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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