An Ode to Effective Lagrangians
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Condensed Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
A brief introduction is given to the methods and spirit of effective lagrangians. The emphasis is on a summary of the overall picture, using a simple model as the vehicle to motivate and illustrate the main points. Powercounting is illustrated by estimating the size of the quantum corrections to the predictions of classical gravity.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812470,
title = {An Ode to Effective Lagrangians},
author = {C. P. Burgess},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812470},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Invited talk presented to RADCOR 98, Barcelona, September 1998