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I don't know enought about theoretical physics: what makes it a significant contribution there?

• epolanski 8mo ago
  Not every contribution has immediate impact.
  • terminalbraid 8mo ago
    That doesn't answer the question. That statement just admits "maybe" which isn't helpful or insightful to answering it.
• terminalbraid 8mo ago
  It's a nontrivial calculation valid for a class of forces (e.g. QCD) and apparently a serious simplification to a specific calculation that hadn't been completed before. But for what it's worth, I spent a good part of my physics career working in nucleon structure and have not run across the term "single minus amplitudes" in my memory. That doesn't necessarily mean much as there's a very broad space work like this takes place in and some of it gets extremely arcane and technical. One way I gauge the significance of a theory paper are the measured quantities and physical processes it would contribute to. I see none discussed here which should tell you how deep into math it is. I personally would not have stopped to read it on my arxiv catch-up https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new Maybe to characterize it better, physicists were not holding their breath waiting for this to get done.
  • RandomLensman 8mo ago
    Thank you!