Karl-Henning Rehren

Karl-Henning Rehren (right) with Roberto Longo (left), Klaus Fredenhagen (middle)

Karl-Henning Rehren (* 1956 in Celle ) is a German physicist in the field of quantum field theory .

Life

Rehren studied physics in Göttingen , Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1984 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the invariant quantization of the relativistic free strings with Klaus Pohlmeyer in Freiburg. In 1991 he completed his habilitation in Berlin . Since 1997 he has been teaching at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

He mainly works in the field of algebraic quantum field theory . Probably his best known work from 1999 deals with the holographic principle . He himself sees his work as proof of this assumption, but this is rejected by representatives of string theory . In this context, the term algebraic holography or Rehren duality was coined in order to distinguish his work from the view of the holographic principle, which is widespread among string theorists.

Publications

• K. Fredenhagen, K.-H. Rehren, E. Seiler: Quantum Field Theory: Where We Are . In: Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu, Erhard Seiler (Ed.): Approaches to Fundamental Physics . tape 721 . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71115-5 , pp. 61-87 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-71117-9_4 , arxiv : hep-th / 0603155 .
• K.-H. Rehren: Algebraic Holography . In: Annales Henri Poincaré . tape 1 , no. 4 , September 2000, pp. 607–623 , doi : 10.1007 / PL00001009 , arxiv : hep-th / 9905179v4 .

Prices

• Pohl Medal of the Faculty of Physics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen for the best lecture in the summer semester 2015 ( analytical mechanics ) and summer semester 2008 ( quantum mechanics I )

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Göttingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-Henning Rehren: On the invariant quantization of the relativistic free string. Diss., Univ. Freiburg [Breisgau]. 1984, OCLC 74679211 .
2. ^ Website of the University of Göttingen. Accessed December 12, 2015