Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and background
- 2 Origin of the S matrix: Heisenberg's program as a background to dispersion theory
- 3 Dispersion relations
- 4 Another route to a theory based on analytic reaction amplitudes
- 5 The analytic S matrix
- 6 The bootstrap and Regge poles
- 7 An autonomous S-matrix program
- 8 The duality program
- 9 ‘Data’ for a methodological study
- 10 Methodological lessons
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Glossary of technical terms (from physics and from philosophy)
- Some key figures and their positions
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and background
- 2 Origin of the S matrix: Heisenberg's program as a background to dispersion theory
- 3 Dispersion relations
- 4 Another route to a theory based on analytic reaction amplitudes
- 5 The analytic S matrix
- 6 The bootstrap and Regge poles
- 7 An autonomous S-matrix program
- 8 The duality program
- 9 ‘Data’ for a methodological study
- 10 Methodological lessons
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Glossary of technical terms (from physics and from philosophy)
- Some key figures and their positions
- Index
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- Theory Construction and Selection in Modern PhysicsThe S Matrix, pp. 399 - 409Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990