The course will be taught in the summer 2020 term by Prof. Dirk Kreimer.
Lecture times: REPLACED BY ONLINE TEACHING (was scheduled as Mo 11 – 13 weekly and Wed 15-17 (bi-weekly, RUD25 0’12)
Exercises: Wed 15-17 (bi-weekly, RUD25 0’12))
Independent Tutorial on QFT: tbd
Talks: tbd
Course will be given in english.
The course gives a modern approach to the S-matrix and Cutkosky rules.
It emphasizes the conceptual mathematical foundations underlying perturbative unitarity.
Starting Week of April 20: read Zwicky: ‘A brief Introduction…’ and Kreimer: ‘Multi-valued…’ as provided below.
Exercises tbd
The Moodle link for this course. The course starts April 20 11am via Zoom and the link for that is on the Moodle page of the course.
Lect of April 20
Lect of April 22
Lect of April 27
Lect of April 29
Lect of May 04
Foissy’s paper for lect of May 04
Exerc of May 06
Lect of May 11
Lect of May 13
Lect of May 18
Exerc of May 20
Lect of May 25
Lect of May 27
Bogner et.al paper for lect of May 27
Brown et.al paper for lect of May 27
Exerc of June 03
Lect of June 08
paper for lect of June 08
Vogtmann survey paper for lect of June 08
Vogtmann et.al. paper for lect of June 08
Lect of June 10
Lect of June 15
annotated paper for lect of June 15
Lect/Exerc of June 17
annotated paper for lect/exerc of June 17
Lect of June 22
literature for lect of June 22
Lect of June 24
Lect of June 29
literature for lect of June 29
Exerc/Discussion of July 01
(sheets somewhat unordered)
Lect of July 06
literature for lect of July 06
literature for lect of July 06
literature for lect of July 06
literature for lect of July 06
Orals: PLEASE REGISTER 14 DAYS IN ADVANCE WITH YOUR EXAMINATION OFFICE (Prüfungsbüro).
FOR THAT YOU HAVE FIRST TO AGREE WITH ME ON A TIME AND DATE!
Literature
Zwicky: A brief Introduction to Dispersion Relations and Analyticity
Kreimer: Multi-valued Feynman Graphs and Scattering
Theory
Bloch and Kreimer: Cutkosky rules and Outer Space
Brown and Kreimer: Angles, Scales and Parametric Renormalization
Kreimer: The core Hopf algebra
