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Loops, Unitarity, and Analyticity

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In this chapter we will explore how unitarity, the requirement that probability be conserved in quantum time evolution, interacts with the perturbation expansion.

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  1. Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. (Hermes Trismegistus, The Emerald Tablet.)

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  2. Julian Seymour Schwinger. Born Feb. 12, 1918, New York, NY. Died July 16, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1968.

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Stone, M. (2000). Loops, Unitarity, and Analyticity. In: The Physics of Quantum Fields. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0507-4_5

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