Daniel Friedan - Where does quantum field theory come from?
Channel: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Date: 15/11/2013

Daniel Friedan (Rutgers Univ.)
Where does quantum field theory come from?
This will be an interim report on a long-running project to construct a mechanism that
produces spacetime quantum field theory; to indentify possible exotic, non-canonical low-
energy phenomena in SU(2) and SU(3) gauge theories produced by this mechanism; and
to calculate signals of these phenomena to see if they can be used to check whether the
proposed mechanism operates in the real world. The last effort is still ongoing.