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Keeping Sharp
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Physics 2024, 24: Instantons & Multiinstantons
Finite action of solutions of Euclidean field equations in Yang-Mills theory saturates the bound determined by the topological charge of...
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Math 2024, 24: Oscillatory Integrals
Oscillatory integrals I(λ) generally have the form and become interesting at large (and real) λ. Usually it's assumed that the phase and...
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Physics 2024, 23: Perturbative Loop Expansion
In 4D Yang-Mills theory, perturbation theory generates an infrared cut-off for magnetic screening, that is too weak for convergence of...
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Math 2024, 23: The Levi Form
In ℝᵈ any boundary point, the near region can be put in very simple canonical form by choosing appropriate coordinates, so that the...
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Math 2024, 22: Hartog's Theorem
The following will work extensively with holomorphic functions on complex spaces. While these objects are pretty much omnipresent, but...
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Physics 2024, 22: Free-Particle Partition Function
A path integral over the field configurations gives a representation of the thermodynamical partition function. The resulting Euclidean...
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Math 2024, 21: Markov Property and Dirichlet Problem
Take a bounded, open, d-dimensional set and a continuous function f on the boundary. Find a function u, that is continous on the...
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Physics 2024, 21: One-Loop Running of Gauge Coupling
Computation of the running coupling constant at one-loop level is stuff of QFTII, but complicated enough to always merit repetition. In...
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Physics 2024, 20: Gauge Fixing in Functional Integration
An element of the S-matrix is determined by a functional integral with a Yang-Mills action functional S[A] The integration measure is...
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Physics 2024, 19: Spontaneous Gauge-Symmetry Breaking
A smooth curve in 4D spacetime has a "Wilson Line" along itself, defined through an exponential. with a path-ordering operator P. It's an...
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