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QED: S-Matrix, Causality and Analyticity

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In this chapter, we carry forward the discussions of S-matrix, causality and analyticity initiated in Chap. 4. This chapter is wholly devoted to placing these concepts in the specific context of Quantum Electrodynamics(QED). A very detailed account is given of the development of QED starting from Dirac’s relativistic electron theory to the culmination of QED in the works of Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Freeman Dyson. It concludes with an assessment of the S-matrix in QED with respect to Heisenberg’s initial program as well as with respect to causality and analyticity in non-perturbative Relativistic Quantum Field Theory(RQFT). Nearly 70 references are included.

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Hari Dass, N.D. (2023). QED: S-Matrix, Causality and Analyticity. In: Strings to Strings. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 1018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35358-1_5

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