Rigorous Methods in Particle Physics

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Walter Thirring, geb. 1927. 1953/54 Member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 1956/57 Visiting Professor am M.I.T., Cambridge, anschließend University of Washington, Seattle. Dann Lehrtätigkeit in Bern und Wien. 1968-71 Direktor des Theoretical Department CERN. Über 200 wissenschaftliche Publikationen, zahlreiche internationale Auszeichnungen, u. a. Eötvös-Medaille 1967, Erwin-Schrödinger-Preis, Max-Planck-Medaille, Ehrendoktorat der Comenius-Universität Bratislava, Henri-Poincare-Preis der Int. Association of Mathematical Physics. Thirrings große Liebe gilt der Musik, und hier besonders der Orgel und der Komposition.

A model for a dia-electric.- Potential models for quarkonium systems.- Some new bounds on the number of bound states.- Moment inequalities and a Martin conjecture.- On a class of spectral problems admitting partial algebraization.- High energy theorems.- Complex angular momentum analysis in axiomatic quantum field theory.- Inverse scattering revisited: Explicit solution of the Marchenko-Martin method.- The inverse of an inverse problem.- Weak-star compactness and its relevance to analyticity problems.- Variational improvement of perturbation theory and/or perturbative improvement of variational calculations.- A new method for QCD sum rules: The L? norm approach.- Bifurcation theory applied to chiral symmetry breaking.- On the scaling behavior of the O(N) ?-model.- A conjecture on the possible exact (1+1)-dimensional solutions to the discrete Boltzmann models I.- Are heavy Higgs interactions observable at the 100 GeV scale?.- Geometric approaches to particle physics.