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We show how the combination of analyticity properties derived from local field theory and the unitarity condition (in particular positivity) leads to non-trivial physical results, including the proof of the “Froissart bound” from first principles and the existence of absolute bounds on the pion-pion scattering amplitude.
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Martin, A. (2000). The Rigorous Analyticity-Unitarity Program and Its Success. In: Breitenlohner, P., Maison, D. (eds) Quantum Field Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44482-3_8
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