Against particle/field duality: Asymptotic particle states and interpolating fields in interacting QFT (or: Who's afraid of Haag's theorem?)

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Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 375-406

  Bain, Jonathan ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749026861     PISSN: 01650106     EISSN: 15728420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026482100470     Document Type: Article

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