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BRS "Symmetry", prehistory and history

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

Prehistory - Starting from 't Hooft's (1971) we have a short look at Taylor's and Slavnov's works (1971-72) and at the lectures given by Rouet and Stora in Lausanne-1973 which determine the transition from pre-history to history. History - We give a brief account of the main analyses and results of the BRS collaboration concerning the renormalized gauge theories, in particular the method of the regularization independent, algebraic renormalization, the algebraic proof of S-matrix unitarity and that of gauge choice independence of the renormalized physics. We conclude this report with a suggestion to the crucial question: what could remain of BRS invariance beyond perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.1107.1070,
  title  = {BRS "Symmetry", prehistory and history},
  author = {Carlo M. Becchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1070},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Talk given at: A Special day in honour of Raymond Stora, Annecy, July 8, 2011