Constructive Field Theory, Phase II
Abstract
It now appears possible to study a realm of problems in CFT which, two years ago, appeared an order of magnitude too difficult to tackle. The finishing touches have just been put on the first paper of this sort1, and in this talk I will describe some of the basic ideas; these ideas are simple, although the details of the paper are complicated. The main question that I will discuss today has been around as long as field theory: Namely how does an interacting field model react to perturbations by an external source? Such perturbations of \(\textup{P}\left (\phi \right )_{2}\), or in fact any reasonable local perturbations of the \(\textup{P}\left (\phi \right )_{2}\) model, have been shown to be regular by James Glimm and myself1. As a consequence, (i) further properties of the original model have been established1, (ii) some new breakthroughs are being made2 and (iii) these methods appear promising for use in the study of more singular models than \(\textup{P}\left (\phi \right )_{2}\).
Keywords
Vacuum Energy Inductive Step Path Space Graph Expansion Lorentz CovariancePreview
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