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In spite of a very mixed record of success and failure, Regge theory, in which the notion of complex angular momentum is introduced into quantum mechanics still lives on. What has dissuaded physicists from discarding it, and what is our present assessment of the theory?
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Leader, E. Why has Regge pole theory survived?. Nature 271, 213–216 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/271213a0
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