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On the prosaic origin of the double poles in the sine-GordonS-matrix

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We show that the apparently exotic double poles in the sine-GordonS-matrix are nothing but ordinary anomalous thresholds.

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  1. Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Sidney Coleman & H. J. Thun

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  1. Sidney Coleman
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Communicated by A. Jaffe

This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY77-22864

Max Kade Foundation Fellow. On leave of absence from the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

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Coleman, S., Thun, H.J. On the prosaic origin of the double poles in the sine-GordonS-matrix. Commun.Math. Phys. 61, 31–39 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01609466

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