A Critical History of Renormalization

The history of renormalization is reviewed with a critical eye, starting with Lorentz's theory of radiation damping, through perturbative QED with Dyson, Gell-Mann & Low, and others, to Wilson's formulation and Polchinski's functional equation, and applications to "triviality", and dark energy in cosmology.

Note:

To the memory of Kenneth G. Wilson (1936--2013)

Renormalization
quantum electrodynamics
quantum field theory
renormalization
quantum electrodynamics
cosmological model
dark energy
field theory
asymptotic freedom
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