Question

The exploitation of a property whose name begins with this word was repopularized by a 1998 study of a truncated ERGE (“E-R-G-E”) by Martin Reuter, after it was first proposed in a 1979 paper by Steven Weinberg on quantum gravity. A property whose name begins with this word prevents divergences in the UV limit in perturbatively nonrenormalizable quantum field theories, provided that a nontrivial renormalization group fixed point exists. This adjective describes that type of “safety” and begins the name (-5[1])of a feature of theories that lack Landau poles. A feature whose name begins with this word occurs when the beta function is negative, (10[2])so that the coupling constant decreases with energy, and the force (10[2])increases (10[1])with increasing (10[1])distance. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])the strong force exhibits (10[1])a “freedom” named (10[2])for what (10[2])adjective (10[1])that refers (-5[1])to behavior at infinity? ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

ANSWER: asymptotic [accept asymptotic freedom or asymptotically free; accept asymptotic safety or asymptotically safe; prompt on nonperturbative renormalizability or nonperturbatively renormalizable until “perturbatively” is read]
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2024 ACF Nationals2024-04-21Y2090%0%10%121.72

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanfordNorthwestern78-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AClaremont Colleges10210
Alex AkridgeIndianaFlorida10210
Richard NiuCornell AToronto B11310
Adam FineChicago ASouth Carolina11310
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BBerkeley A11410
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AVirginia11610
Mason YuBrownMcGill11710
Cory SmithKentuckyToronto A11710
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL BYale A12010
Andrew WangIllinoisOttawa12410
John John GrogerColumbia BMichigan12710
Ryan HumphreyTexasCornell B12710
Shardul RaoMinnesota AChicago C12910
Fred GarveyTruman StatePurdue12910
Aum MundheRutgersHarvard13010
Simon GorbatyDukeMinnesota B132-5
Nicholas TunksMinnesota BDuke1370
Eshan PantNYUJohns Hopkins1370
David BassJohns HopkinsNYU1370
Andrew SalijNorthwesternStanford13710
Isaac MammelMarylandPenn13710
Aidan FeinVanderbiltYale B13710