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Notes on topics in quantum field theory, 1960s

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents Effective Hamiltonian in the fixed source problem, relation between scattering cross sections and the S-matrix, representations of the Lorentz group, Lorentz-invariant wave equations, relation between scattering cross sections and the S-matrix (version 2), chiral SU(3)xSU(3) symmetry, some current algebra formulae, representations of SU(3), Dirac equation in 1 dimension, Lorentz group commutators, 2nd order weak interactions (with Operator Product Expansion), Steinberger calculation of...
Dates: 1960s

Notes for Physics 574 - Applications of Quantum Mechanics, 1982-1984

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Looseleaf notebook w. problem sets and course notes (notes after the green separator might be by Tung-Mow Yan), after the green separator, quotes from Ken taken down by students: e.g. "If you do the calculation properly and come back a year later, you will find that it is still divergent…"

Dates: 1982-1984

Dispersion Relations for Infinite Plasmas, 1958

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Manuscript from Wilson's graduate study at Caltech

Dates: 1958

Proof of a Conjecture by Dyson, J. Math. Phys. 3, 1040, 1962

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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With a related news article from Science (2005)

Dates: 1962

A Set of Double Integral Equations for Low-Energy Pion-Pion Scattering, 1960

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Manuscript from Harvard "to be submitted to Phys. Rev." (but apparently not submitted)

Dates: 1960

A Model for Coupling Constant Renormalization, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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LNS-65-13 ; this unpublished manuscript is located in Series I

Dates: 1965

On Products of Quantum Field Operators at Short Distances, 1965, 1969

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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Manuscript submitted to the Physical Review (1965) (and parts of an earlier draft), referee report (from Arthur Wightman), notes for an answer to the referee report the paper was never resubmitted. Wilson developed these ideas for many more years and announced them in his article "Nonlagrangian Models of Current Algebra" (1969)

Dates: 1965; 1969