Charged Matter: Physics and Renormalisation
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Descriptions of the ground state in unbroken gauge theories with charged particles are discussed. In particular it is shown that the on-shell Green’s functions and S-matrix elements corresponding to the scattering of these variables in QED are free of soft and phase infra red divergences and that these variables may be multiplicatively renormalised.
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