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| | Introduction |
 | | Whether one accepted this viewpoint or not [1], in the absence of a viable theory of strongly interacting elementary particles it was clearly necessary to rely on general properties of the scattering matrix. |
 | | Perturbative field theory, if utilized at all, could be employed primarily to illustrate and explore the consequences of these properties (Eden, Landshoff, Olive, and Polkinghorne, 1966). |
 | | In this context, Regge theory (Regge, 1959; Chew and Frautschi, 1961; P.D.B. Collins, 1971) and its allies and generalizations, such as the dual model (Veneziano, 1968; Mandelstam, 1974) and Reggeon calculus (Gribov, 1968; Abarbanel, Bronzan, Sugar, and White, 1975; Baker and Ter-Martirosyan, 1976), which described particles primarily as analytic features of the S-matrix, flourished. |
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