Dmitry Shirkov

Dmitri Vasilevich Shirkov (Russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Ширков, English transcription Dmitry Shirkov, born March 3, 1928 in Moscow ) is a Russian theoretical physicist.

Shirkov studied physics at the Moscow State University with the conclusion of 1949. 1954 he received his doctorate in neutron diffusion and 1958 he completed his habilitation (Russian PhD ) about renormalization in quantum field theory. From 1942 he worked at the Steklov Institute and from 1960 to 1969 at the Mathematical Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the University of Novosibirsk, where he headed the Institute for Theoretical Physics. From 1969 he was in Dubna and at the same time from 1972 professor at the Moscow State University, first in the Department of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory, and from 1992 in the Department of High Energy Physics at JINR. 1993 to 1997 he headed the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics at JINR, where he is an honorary director today.

1970/71 he was a visiting professor at the University of Lund. In 1960 he became a corresponding and 1994 full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1985) and the scientific community in Lund (1970).

He was an employee of Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov, with whom he worked in the 1950s on Axiomatic quantum field theory and developed the Renormierungsgruppenmethode around 1955. In the 1960s he focused on elastic and quasi-elastic scattering of hadrons at low energy. In 1969, he advocated a universal repulsive character of the strong interaction between hadrons at very short intervals. He also conducted research on superconductivity.

From the 1970s, he dealt primarily with the renormalization group (RG) for the study of the asymptotic behavior of various quantum field theories. He examined their role in various fields of theoretical physics, and in 1988 to the concept of functional self-similarity on the basis of the RG. He developed in the 1990s by Vladimir F. Kovalev a process for clarifying the nature of singularities in a wide class of boundary value problems of mathematical physics. Since 1996 he developed with I.L. Solowtsowim a method of analytic perturbation theory in quantum chromodynamics.

In the 1950s, he was also in the Soviet atomic bomb project and nuclear energy project as a theorist.

He was twice awarded the Red Banner of Labor (1954, 1967), 1958 the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the USSR in 1984. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation and in the same year the Bogolyubov gold medal.

Writings

• With NN Bogoliubov, VV Tolmachev, A New Method in the Theory of Superconductivity, New York, Consultants Bureau, 1959 ( Russian 1958)
• Vladimir Belokurov The theory of particle interactions, American Institute of Physics, New York 1991
• With NN Bogoliubov The Theory of Quantized Fields, Interscience 1959
• With NN Bogoliubov Introduction to the Theory of Quantized Fields, Wiley, 3rd edition 1980
• With NN Bogoliubov Quantum Fields, Benjamin - Cummings 1982
• Remembering Bogoliubov, Ukrainian Physical Journal, 2009
• 60 years of broken symmetry in quantum physics. From the Bogoliubov theory of superfluidity to the Standard Model, 2009
• The Bogoliubov Renormalization Group in theoretical and mathematical physics, 1999
• The role of Renormalization Group in fundamental theoretical physics, 1997
• The Bogoliubov Renormalization Group, 1996
• Evolution of the Bogoliubov Renormalization Group in 1999
• With VF Kovalev Bogoliubov Renormalization Group and Symmetry of Solution in Mathematical Physics, Physics Reports, Volume 352, 2001, pp. 219-249
• With V. Kovalev Functional self- similarity and renormalization group symmetry in mathematical physics, Theor. Math Phys., Volume 121, 1999
• With IL Solovtsov Analytical Approach in QCD, Theor. Math Phys., Volume 120, 1999