Research report 2005 - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

Renormalisation as Galois-Symmetry

Authors
Marcolli, Matilde
Departments


MPI für Mathematik, Bonn

Summary
In the sixties and seventies of the last century physicists developed procedures to renormalize infinities appearing in quantum field theory. We explain recent work of Connes-Kreimer and Connes-Marcolli, giving a conceptual understanding of these procedures and indicating unexpected links to number theory.

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