Raphael Høegh-Krohn
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Jan Raphael Høegh-Krohn was a Norwegian mathematician
Mathematician
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He finished his Ph.D.
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 in 1966 entitled On Partly Gentle Perturbation with Application to Perturbation by Annihilation-Creation Operator under the supervision of Kurt Friedrichs at the New York University
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He has authored over 150 papers and is known for the discovery of a fundamental duality in relativistic quantum statistical mechanics
Quantum statistical mechanics
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 by representing the basic correlation functions in terms of a certain
stochastic process, now known as the Høegh-Krohn process.

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