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  Renormalization and Gauge Invariance

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Referee this paper: [PMP:hooft] by Gerard 't Hooft

Please use comments to point to previous work in this direction, and reviews to referee the accuracy of the paper. Feel free to edit this submission to summarise the paper (just click on edit, your summary will then appear under the horizontal line)

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This 2006 paper by G. 't Hooft presents an overview of the developments

''that led to our present insights in how renormalization works, from the initial skepticism to our present views of quantized field theory being an effective tool for understanding a vast domain of scales in the world of the elementary particles.''

summarized by Arnold Neumaier , dimension10
paper authored Dec 17, 2009 to hep-th by gthooft, 
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    edited Aug 27, 2014 by Arnold Neumaier

    A controversial opinion-based discussion of this paper can be found here.

    commented Sep 8, 2014 by Dilaton (6,240 points) [ no revision ]

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