2008/03/18 by Andrey Grozin, Grozin, Andrey
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0803.2589
arxiv created 2008/03/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
In this lecture, the early history of asymptotic freedom is discussed. The first completely correct derivation of β0 in non-abelian gauge theory (Khriplovich, 1969) was done in the Coulomb gauge; this derivation is reproduced (in modernized terms) in Sect. 2. A qualitative physical explanation of asymptotic freedom via chromomagnetic properties of vacuum (Nielsen, 1981) is discussed in Sect. 3.