Bert Schroer

Bert Schroer (born November 10, 1933 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German mathematical physicist who deals with algebraic quantum field theory.

Bert Schroer

life and work

Schroer studied from 1953 Physics at the University of Hamburg , where he took his degree in 1958 and in 1963 Harry Lehmann doctorate was (theory of Infrateilchen, published in 1963 in Advances in Physics. Volume 11). From 1959 to 1961 he was a Research Associate at the University of Illinois and 1963/64 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1964 he became an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh before becoming a professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1970 . In 1999 he retired there. Among other things, he was visiting scholar at CERN (1976/77, 1985/86 as visiting professor), at the University of California, Berkeley (1992), in São Paulo (1972/73) and Rio de Janeiro , where he was at the 1979/80 Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) and has been visiting professor at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research CBPF (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas) since 1999.

Schroer dealt with mathematical quantum field theory within the "Local Quantum Physics" approach of the Haag School via operator algebras. From the 1990s he also used it, for example, to establish connections to the holographic principle (AdS-CFT correspondence, a version of which was proven in 1999 by Karl-Henning Rehren in the algebraic quantum field theory), an entropy area formula analogous to the Bekenstein formula of the entropy of black holes and candidates for Dark matter to beat, and thus constructed field theory with particles anyons statistic (corresponding representations of the braid group ) in four dimensions obey.

Schroer has also emerged as a critic of string theory and its proponents.

In Brazil he worked with Jorge A. Swieca, among others .

Fonts

• QFT at the Turn of the Century: old principles with new concepts, an essay on local quantum physics, 1998. In: Journal of Mathematical Physics. Centennial Issue, 2000
• Modular Localization and Nonperturbative Local Quantum Physics . Course Notes, Rio de Janeiro 1998, arxiv : hep-th / 9805093
• Reminiscences about Many Pitfalls and Some Successes of QFT Within the Last Three Decades . 1994, arxiv : hep-th / 9410085
• Local Quantum Theory beyond Quantization . In: Doebner u. a. (Ed.): Trends in Quantum Mechanics. World Scientific, 2000, arxiv : hep-th / 9912008

Web links

• Homepage at the Free University of Berlin, with a list of publications and a description of his research interests
• Literature by and about Bert Schroer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schroer: String theory and the crisis of particle physics II or the ascent of metaphoric arguments . 2008, arxiv : 0805.1911 . String theory deconstructed. 2006, arxiv : hep-th / 0611132