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04-27-2006, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AntonioLao
When Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga did it according to what you said, the result is infinite energy. But t'Hooft came to the rescue by applying 1st and 2nd renormalization and thus removed all infinities. All four received Nobel Prizes for their efforts.
Did they work with lagrangians or hamiltonians? Would there be any significant different between using any of the two?
  
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