Historical curiosity: how asymptotic freedom of the Yang-Mills theory could have been discovered three times before Gross, Wilczek, and Politzer, but was not

M. Shifman

This article was published in 2001 in Festschrift "At the Frontier of Particle Physics; Handbook of QCD", Ed. M. Shifman, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2001), Vol. 1, page 126. Asy…