Politzer, H.D.; Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions?
Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1346;
Reprinted in The Physical Review - the First Hundred Years, AIP Press (1995) CD-ROM.
Abstracts
An explicit calculation shows perturbation theory to be arbitrarily good for the deep Euclidean Green's functions of any Yang-Mills theory and many Yang-Mills theories with fermions. Under the hypothesis that spontaneous symmetry breakdown is of dynamical origin, these symmetric Green's functions are the asymptotic forms of the physically significant spontaneously broken solution, whose coupling could be strong.
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Record comments
Discovery of the "asymptotic freedom'' property of interacting Yang-Mills field theories.