Gerhard Mack

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Gerhard Mack (born July 4, 1940 in Tübingen ) is a German theoretical physicist who deals with quantum field theory , elementary particle physics and lattice theory.

Mack received his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Bern and completed his habilitation in 1971 at the University of Munich . In 1972 he became an associate professor at the University of Bern. Since 1975 he has been a full professor at the 2nd Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and also a theorist at DESY .

He is a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg . 1974/75 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

From the 1970s he dealt with conformal field theories and models for testing confinement mechanisms, for which he investigated lattice theories in particular, including pietarines, from the late 1970s. In the 1990s he dealt, among other things, with quantum group symmetries and braid groups .

He also deals with complex systems, modeled according to gauge theories, for example in biology.

He published with Martin Lüscher , Kurt Symanzik and Abdus Salam (1969) , among others .

In 1981 he received the Klung Wilhelmy Weberbank Prize .

Fonts

  • General theory of relativity and gauge theory, Vieweg / Teubner 1991
  • Editor with Arthur Jaffe , Harry Lehmann Quantum field theory: a selection of papers in memorian Kurt Symanzik , Springer Verlag 1985
  • Nonperturbative methods , in Raito, Lindfors (editor) Gauge theories in the 80s , Arctic School of Physics, Äkäslompolo / Finland 1982, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 181, 1983, pp. 35-66
  • Properties of lattice gauge theory models at low temperature in Gerard t'Hooft (editor) Recent developments in gauge theories , Plenum Press 1980
  • Mack Color screening and quark confinement , Physics Letters B, Volume 78, 1978, p. 263
  • Mack, Pietarinen Test of some current ideas in quark confinement physics by Monte Carlo computations for finite lattice , Phys. Letters B, Volume 94, 1980, pp. 387-400
  • Mack, Pietarinen Monopoles, vortices and confinement , Nuclear Physics B, Volume 205, 1982, 141-67
  • with Petkova Comparison of Lattice Gauge Theories with gauge groups Z2 and SU (2) , Annals of Physics, Volume 123, 1979, pp. 442-467
  • with Volker Schomerus Quantum Symmetry in Quantum Theory , Physikalische Blätter 1993, p. 883

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mack at the Hamburg Academy of Sciences, with photo
  2. ↑ Mack Universal Dynamics, a unified theory of complex systems: emergence, life and death , Desy, 00-146, 2000, Gauge theories of things alive and universal dynamics , Desy 94-184, 1994, Arxiv
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen