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't Hooft: renormalizable Lagrangians for massive Yang-Mills fields

Contribution grade

Quantum field theory · theoretical consistency result

Reference score420,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

A key class of broken gauge theories acquired a defensible perturbative calculation framework.

Scientific scope

The 1971 paper; Veltman's methods, subsequent proofs and physical applications are separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record covers the 1971 paper; Veltman’s related methods and later proofs and applications remain separate contributions.

Contributors

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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