Skip to Main Content

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

What is MCQ? The Mathematical Citation Quotient (MCQ) measures journal impact by looking at citations over a five-year period. Subscribers to MathSciNet may click through for more detailed information.

 

What is a quantum field theory?
HTML articles powered by AMS MathViewer

by David C. Brydges PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 31-40
References
    1. P. A. M. Dirac, Proc. Roy. Soc. 114 (1927). See also J. von Neumann, Mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N. J., 1955.
  • Michael Reed and Barry Simon, Methods of modern mathematical physics. I, 2nd ed., Academic Press, Inc. [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], New York, 1980. Functional analysis. MR 751959
  • R. F. Streater and A. S. Wightman, PCT, spin and statistics, and all that, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amsterdam, 1964. MR 0161603
  • Edward Nelson, Construction of quantum fields from Markoff fields, J. Functional Analysis 12 (1973), 97–112. MR 0343815, DOI 10.1016/0022-1236(73)90091-8
  • 5. J. Fröhlich, On the triviality of $łambda \varphi ^{4}\sbd$ theories and the approach to the critical point in $d{>atop (—)}4$ dimensions, Inst. Hautes Études Sci., preprint. See also [13].
  • David Brydges, Jürg Fröhlich, and Thomas Spencer, The random walk representation of classical spin systems and correlation inequalities, Comm. Math. Phys. 83 (1982), no. 1, 123–150. MR 648362, DOI 10.1007/BF01947075
  • David Brydges and Paul Federbush, A lower bound for the mass of a random Gaussian lattice, Comm. Math. Phys. 62 (1978), no. 1, 79–82. MR 496278, DOI 10.1007/BF01940332
  • James Glimm and Arthur Jaffe, Quantum physics, Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1981. A functional integral point of view. MR 628000, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-0121-9
  • Barry Simon, Functional integration and quantum physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 86, Academic Press, Inc. [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers], New York-London, 1979. MR 544188
  • Barry Simon, The $P(\phi )_{2}$ Euclidean (quantum) field theory, Princeton Series in Physics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1974. MR 0489552
  • Erhard Seiler, Gauge theories as a problem of constructive quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 159, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1982. MR 785937, DOI 10.1007/BFb0018202
  • 12. D. Brydges, J. Fröhlich and A. Sokal, A new construction of $\varphi _{3}^{4}$ (in preparation).
  • Michael Aizenman, Proof of the triviality of $\varphi _{d}^{4}$ field theory and some mean-field features of Ising models for $d>4$, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47 (1981), no. 1, 1–4. MR 620135, DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1
Similar Articles
  • Retrieve articles in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society with MSC (1980): 81E05, 81E10
  • Retrieve articles in all journals with MSC (1980): 81E05, 81E10
Additional Information
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 (1983), 31-40
  • MSC (1980): Primary 81E05, 81E10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15076-0
  • MathSciNet review: 682819