Electromagnetic Interactions and Field Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Opening Address....Pages 1-3
Photon Hadron Interaction in the Resonance Region....Pages 5-87
Two-Body and Quasi-Two-Body Electro- and Photoproduction at High Energies....Pages 89-142
e + e - Annihilation, the New Particles, and Charm....Pages 143-231
Physics with e + e - -Storage Rings....Pages 233-306
Phenomenology of Weak Currents....Pages 307-395
Quantum Electrodynamics in Laser Fields....Pages 397-468
Analytic Extrapolation Techniques and Stability Problems in Dispersion Relation Theory....Pages 469-470
Source Theory Viewpoints in Deep Inelastic Scattering....Pages 471-488
Vacuum Polarization, Source- and Otherwise....Pages 489-520
Spontaneous Mass Generation, Renormalization Group and Solvable U(N) -Symmetric Models....Pages 521-548
A Second Look at Relativistic Wave Equations....Pages 549-565
Structural Questions in Quantum Field Theory....Pages 567-580
Stochastic Processes and Quantum Theory....Pages 581-629
Convexity Properties of Coulomb Systems....Pages 631-642
Finite Conformal Transformations in Local Quantum Field Theory....Pages 643-666
Summary....Pages 667-681