Monthly Archives: November 2008

Short Bits

Posted on November 11, 2008 by woit

More about BRST is on its way, but in the meantime a lot of things have accumulated that might be of interest, so I wanted to do a quick posting about these. One of them does have to do with … Continue reading →

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Notes on BRST I: Representation Theory and Quantum Mechanics

Posted on November 5, 2008 by woit

This is the first posting of a planned series that will discuss the BRST method for handling gauge symmetries and related mathematical topics. I’ve been writing a more formal paper about this, but given the substantial amount of not-well-known background … Continue reading →

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The Circus Begins

Posted on November 2, 2008 by woit

Friday’s arXiv posting of the paper by CDF about the multi-muon anomaly they are seeing has already generated three different conjectural explanations of what physics might be responsible for this. Undoubtedly many, many more are on the way. Some members … Continue reading →

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