Special Problems in High Energy Physics : Proceedings of the VI. Internationale Universitätswochen Für Kernphysik 1967 Der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, at Schladming (Steiermark, Austria), 26th February–9th March 1967

The past meetings held under the auspices of the Austrian Ministry of Education and the successes and benefits derived from these lectures in former years have encouraged us to continue this year with a survey of high energy physics. The experimental side of this field has undergone such a great advancement that the evaluation of huge masses of data called for the theoretical physicist to develop new theories and to explain facts and connections which we have not been able to clarify up to the present. In spite of the precarious situation especially in the field of Elementary Particle Theories, the theoretical physicist is about to summarize the present situation and to give further impulses for thc progress of our knowledge in nuclear physics. Thus the results of the Sixth International Meeting in Schladming and the interest shown in it fully justify our endeavours in this direction. In organizing the publication of the proceedings we shall continue on the same lines as hitherto so as to reduce delays through editing to an absolute minimum and to offer the publication at a reasonable price. I am again grateful for the assistance of the Springer-Verlag whose photo­ mechanical method proved so süccessful. Nevertheless we wish to apologize for any mistakes that might have occurred in writing the text of formulae. Front Matter....Pages i-iv Introduction....Pages 1-3 Meson Decays....Pages 4-38 Dispersion Sum Rules in Elementary Particle Physics....Pages 39-97 Divergence Equations and Current Algebra....Pages 98-117 Algebraic Formulation of Dynamical Problems....Pages 118-144 High Energy Scattering of Hadrons....Pages 145-186 S-Matrix Singularity Structure....Pages 187-211 An Attempt to Calculate Radiative Corrections to a Pure Fermi Decay....Pages 212-227 Quantum Field Theory and Generalized Functions....Pages 228-268 Quantum Field Theory in de Sitter Space....Pages 269-287 Mach’s Principle and Elementary Particles....Pages 288-306 Coulomb Fission by Very Heavy Ions....Pages 307-308 Leptonic Decays of the Kaon According to Current Algebra and PCAC....Pages 309-319 Vector Mesons and the Electromagnetic Interactions of Hadrons....Pages 320-346 SUMMARY — First Week....Pages 347-350 SUMMARY — Second Week....Pages 351-359 Sponsored by the Bundesministerium fur Unterricht, Bundesministerium fur Handel, Gewerbe und Industrie, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Steiermarkische Landesregierung and Kammer der gewerblichen Wirtschaft fur Steiermark