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The Electron is Inexhaustible

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Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective

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This paper has grown out of a lecture the author presented at the conference “Prospects in Mathematics” at the department of mathematics of Princeton University, in 1996. It has first been published in the proceedings of this conference, edited by Hugo Rossi and published by the American Mathematical Society in 1999. It summarizes some of the modest contributions of the author and his collaborators in two areas of mathematical physics that have seen considerable activity, during the past several years: Conductance quantization in quantum Hall fluids and in ballistic wires (Section 4, refs. 38 through 41), and Noncommutative Differential Geometry and applications to physics (Sections 2 and 5, refs. 1 through 4, 10).

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Fröhlich, J. (1999). The Electron is Inexhaustible. In: DeWitt-Morette, C., Zuber, JB. (eds) Quantum Field Theory: Perspective and Prospective. NATO Science Series, vol 530. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4542-8_9

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