The Past and Future of S-Matrix Theory

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dc.creatorWhite, Alan. R.
dc.date2000-02-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:40:52Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:40:52Z
dc.descriptionContents: 1. Introduction. 2. The Early Years. 2.1 Living Without Field Theory. 2.2 Initial Postulates. 2.3 Further Postulates. 2.4 QCD and a Final Postulate. 2.5 Analyticity in Field Theory. 3. Axiomatic S-Matrix Theory. 3.1 Unitarity, Bubble Diagrams and Landau Diagrams. 3.2 The Landau Equations and the ``$+~ α$'' Condition. 3.3 Macrocausality and Essential Support. 3.4 The Structure Theorem. 3.5 Local Discontinuity Formulae. 3.6 Good and Bad Functions and the Steinmann Relations. 3.7 Global Discontinuity Formulae. 3.8 CPT, Hermitian Analyticity, etc. 3.9 Holonomy. 4. Asymptotic S-Matrix Theory. 4.1 The Elastic Scattering Asymptotic Dispersion Relation. 4.2 Multiparticle Kinematics and Analyticity Domains. 4.3 Multiparticle Asymptotic Dispersion Relations. 4.4 Classification of Multiple Discontinuities. 5. Multi-Regge Theory. 5.1 Partial-Wave Expansions. 5.2 Froissart-Gribov Continuations. Sommerfeld-Watson Representations. 5.4 Reggeon Unitarity. 6. Reggeon Field Theory. 6.1 Pomeron Phase-Space and the Effective Lagrangian. 6.2 The Critical Pomeron. 6.3 The Super-Critical Pomeron. 7. QCD and the Critical Pomeron. 7.1 Reggeon Diagrams in QCD. 7.2 Color Superconductivity and the Super-Critical Pomeron. 7.3 Quark Saturation and an Infra-Red Fixed Point. 7.4 Uniqueness of the S-Matrix ?
dc.description43 pages, with 12 PS figures in the text. Contribution to ``Scattering'', edited by E. R. Pike and P. Sabatier, to be published by Academic Press
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0002303
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0002303
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/39425
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleThe Past and Future of S-Matrix Theory
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