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#hopfalgebra

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Two years ago, I began writing my #doctoralThesis in theoretical #physics. Most effort went into giving a very detailed pedagogical account of what the #renormalization #HopfAlgebra in #QuantumFieldTheory does, and why it is natural and transparent from a physical perspective.
One year ago, my referees recommended in their reports to publish the thesis as a book, and today I received the printed copies!
It was exciting to go through all the steps of actually publishing a book, and I hope that it will be of use to convince physicists that the Hopf algebra structure in #QFT is not a weird mathematical conundrum, but it actually encodes the very way physicists have been thinking of renormalization since the 1950s: Parametrize a theory by quantities one can actually measure, instead of fictional expansion parameters.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007