edited by Erhard Seiler (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Germany) & Klaus Sibold (Universität Leipzig, Germany)

Table of Contents (88k)
Preface (61k)
Chapter 1: Zimmermann's Subtraction Scheme and the Perturbative Solution to the Renormalization Group Evolution Equations (260k)

This book contains a collection of essays written in honor of Wolfhart Zimmermann's 80th birthday, most of them based on talks presented at a symposium in his honor.

The book shows the unifying force of a subject (Quantum Field Theory) and a person (Zimmermann). It ranges from fundamental questions in quantum physics over applications to particle physics and noncommutative geometry to the latest developments in many body theory and dynamical systems. These key ideas are elucidated by worldwide-recognized experts including Faddeev, Becchi, Buchholz, Lowenstein and Salmhofer.

Readers seeking examples on how a subject has evolved, diversified and deepened over the course of several decades and how a single person can influence this process can find here a perfect illustration. Altogether, readers are treated to a high-brow intellectual adventure.

• Zimmermann's Subtraction Scheme and the Perturbative Solution to the Renormalization Group Evolution Equations (C Becchi)
• A New Look at the Higgs–Kibble Model (O Steinmann)
• Large Regular QCD Coupling at Low Energy? (D V Shirkov)
• The Dihedral Group as a Family Group (J Kubo)
• On the Consequences of Twisted Poincaré Symmetry upon QFT on Moyal Noncommutative Spaces (G Fiore)
• Taming the Landau Ghost in Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory (H Grosse)
• Warped Convolutions: A Novel Tool in the Construction of Quantum Field Theories (D Buchholz & S J Summers)
• Quantum (or Averaged) Energy Inequalities in Quantum Field Theory (R Verch)
• Field Theory and Brane Dynamics (T E Clark)
• Knots as Possible Excitations of the Quantum Yang–Mills Fields (L D Faddeev)
• Feynman Graphs and Renormalization in Quantum Diffusion (L Erdös et al.)
• Renormalization in Chaotic and Pseudochaotic Dynamical Systems (J H Lowenstein)