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An ontological description for relativistic, massive bosons
Gerard t Hooft
Relativistic, scalar particles are considered, contained in a box with periodic boundary conditions. Although interactions are not expected to be a fundamental problem, we concentr…
How studying black hole theory may help us to quantise gravity
Gerard t Hooft
Black holes are more than just odd-looking curiosities in gravity theory. They uniquely intertwine the basic principles of General Relativity with those of Quantum Theory. Just by…
Projecting local and global symmetries to the Planck scale
Gerard t Hooft
The Standard Model of the elementary particles is controlled by more than 20 parameters, of which it is not known today how they can be linked to deeper principles. Any attempt to…
Ontology in quantum mechanics
Gerard t Hooft
It is suspected that the quantum evolution equations describing the micro-world as we know it are of a special kind that allows transformations to a special set of basis states in…
A Theory of Scalar Mesons
G. 't Hooft, G. Isidori, L. Maiani +2
We discuss the effect of the instanton induced, six-fermion effective Lagrangian on the decays of the lightest scalar mesons in the diquark--antidiquark picture. This addition allo…
Monopoles, Instantons and Confinement
Gerard 't Hooft, Falk Bruckmann
We review the physics of topological objects in QCD. Topics include: solitons, vortices, magnetic monopoles, instantons, (effective theories of) confinement.