Arthur Jaffe

After graduating from Pelham Memorial High School in 1955,{{cite web|title=Oral History Interviews. Arthur Jaffe, interviewed by Katherine Sopka|date=February 15, 1977|website=American Institute of Physics|url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/31284}} Jaffe attended Princeton University as an undergraduate obtaining a degree in chemistry in 1959, and later Clare College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar, obtaining a degree in mathematics in 1961. He then returned to Princeton, obtaining a doctorate in physics in 1966 with Arthur Wightman. His whole career has been spent teaching mathematical physics and pursuing research at Harvard University. Jaffe was appointed as Professor of Physics in 1970, and had his title changed to Professor of Mathematical Physics in 1974. As part of this transition, Jaffe became a member of the mathematics department. He served as chair from 1987 to 1990.{{Cite news |date=1987 |title=Harvard University list of Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:493291365$480i}}

Arthur Jaffe's 30 doctoral students include Joel Feldman, Ezra Getzler, Clifford Taubes, Eugene Wayne, John Imbrie, Christopher King, and Jonathan Weitsman. In total, Jaffe has over 300 mathematical descendants. He has had many post-doctoral collaborators, including Robert Schrader, Konrad Osterwalder, Juerg Froehlich, {{ill|Roland Sénéor|fr}}, Thomas Spencer, Antti Kupiainen, Krzysztof Gawedzki, Tadeusz Balaban, Andrew Lesniewski, Slawomir Klimek, Zhengwei Liu, and Kaifeng Bu.

For several years Jaffe was president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, and later of the American Mathematical Society. He chaired the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.{{Cite web |title=CSSP Board History |url=https://www.sciencepresidents.org/history-of-the-cssp-board |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=www.sciencepresidents.org}} He served as chair of the board of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Theoretical Physics, from 2005 to 2020.

Jaffe conceived the idea of the Clay Mathematics Institute and its programs, including the employment of research fellows and the Millennium Prizes in mathematics. He served as a founding member, a founding member of the board, and the founding president of that organization.

Arthur Jaffe began as chief editor of Communications in Mathematical Physics in 1979 and served for 21 years until 2001. He served as distinguished visiting professor at the [http://english.amss.cas.cn Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science] of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

One of Arthur Jaffe's earliest contributions was his proof, joint with Henry Epstein and Vladimir Glaser, that energy densities in local quantum field theories are always nonpositive.{{Cite journal |last1=Epstein |first1=H. |last2=Glaser |first2=V. |last3=Jaffe |first3=A. |date=1965-04-01 |title=Nonpositivity of the energy density in quantized field theories |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02749799 |journal=Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965) |language=en |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=1016–1022 |doi=10.1007/BF02749799 |bibcode=1965NCim...36.1016E |issn=1827-6121}}

A large amount of Jaffe's work deals with the mathematical construction and proof of results in quantum field theory. Jaffe began his research on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at which point the only local quantum field theory which had been constructed mathematically was the free field model. In a series of landmark papers, Jaffe and collaborators made great progress in understanding the nature of quantum field theory.{{Cite journal |last=Jaffe |first=Arthur |date=1966 |title=Existence Theorems for a Cut-off λφ4 Field Theory |journal=Mathematical Theory of Elementary Particles |via=MIT Press}}{{Cite journal |last1=Glimm |first1=James |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur |date=1968-12-25 |title=A $\ensuremath{\lambda}{\ensuremath{\phi}}^{4}$ Quantum Field Theory without Cutoffs. I |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.176.1945 |journal=Physical Review |volume=176 |issue=5 |pages=1945–1951 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.176.1945}}{{Cite journal |last1=Cannon |first1=John T. |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur M. |date=1970-12-01 |title=Lorentz covariance of the λ(ϕ4)2 quantum field theory |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01646027 |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=261–321 |doi=10.1007/BF01646027 |issn=1432-0916}}{{Cite web |title=The $\lambda(\varphi^4)_2$ quantum field theory without cutoffs. II. The field operators and the approximate vacuum {{!}} Annals of Mathematics |url=https://annals.math.princeton.edu/1970/91-2/p04 |access-date=2024-04-19 |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last1=Glimm |first1=James |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur |date=1970 |title=The λ(φ4)2 quantum field theory without cutoffsquantum field theory without cutoffs: III. The physical vacuum |url=https://projecteuclid.org/journals/acta-mathematica/volume-125/issue-none/The-%ce%bb%cf%8642-quantum-field-theory-without-cutoffsquantum-field-theory-without/10.1007/BF02392335.full |journal=Acta Mathematica |volume=125 |issue=none |pages=203–267 |doi=10.1007/BF02392335 |issn=0001-5962}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Glimm |first2=James |date=1973 |title=Positivity of the φ43 Hamiltonian |journal=Fortschritte der Physik |volume=21}} This culminated in the first ever mathematical local quantum field theory with non-linearity and non-trivial scattering.{{Cite journal |last1=Glimm |first1=James |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur |last3=Spencer |first3=Thomas |date=1974 |title=The Wightman Axioms and Particle Structure in the P(φ)2 Quantum Field Model |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1970959 |journal=Annals of Mathematics |volume=100 |issue=3 |pages=585–632 |doi=10.2307/1970959 |jstor=1970959 |issn=0003-486X}} Thus it established the mathematical compatibility of special relativity, quantum theory, and interaction. For this work, Jaffe and James Glimm are acknowledged as the founders of the subject of constructive quantum field theory.

Another notable contribution of Jaffe's is his proof, joint with James Glimm and Thomas Spencer, that quantum field theories can have phase transitions.{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Glimm |first2=James |last3=Thomas |first3=Spencer |date=1975 |title=Phase Transitions for φ42 Quantum Fields |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226829034 |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |issue=45 |pages=203–216}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Glimm |first2=James |last3=Spencer |first3=Thomas |date=1976 |title=Existence of Phase Transitions for φ42 Quantum Fields |url=https://inspirehep.net/literature/2772 |journal=Mathematical Methods of Quantum Field Theory |via=CNRS}} While physicists had conjectured for many years that this phenomenon took place, Jaffe-Glimm-Spencer's work gave the first mathematical proof. This work is also notable for using the formalism of reflection positivity to establish its results, which has since become common practice among researchers studying phase transitions in quantum field theory.{{Cite journal |last1=Fröhlich |first1=Jürg |last2=Israel |first2=Robert |last3=Lieb |first3=Elliot H. |last4=Simon |first4=Barry |date=1978-08-01 |title=Phase transitions and reflection positivity. I. General theory and long range lattice models |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01940327 |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |language=en |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=1–34 |doi=10.1007/BF01940327 |bibcode=1978CMaPh..62....1F |issn=1432-0916}}

One recurring idea in Jaffe's works is the notion of reflection positivity, which was first introduced by Osterwalder and Schrader while they were Jaffe's post-doctoral fellows. The notion of reflection positivity has served since its inception as a key tool in the quantization of classical Euclidean field theories into relativistic quantum field theories. It also provides a basic tool to study phase transitions both in statistical physics as well as in quantum field theory. Jaffe has made major contributions to the development of this theory, by establishing key examples,{{Cite journal |last1=Glimm |first1=James |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur |date=1979-09-01 |title=A note on reflection positivity |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397210 |journal=Letters in Mathematical Physics |language=en |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=377–378 |doi=10.1007/BF00397210 |bibcode=1979LMaPh...3..377G |issn=1573-0530}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Klimek |first2=Slawomir |last3=Lesniewski |first3=Andrzej |date=1989-12-01 |title=Representations of the Heisenberg algebra on a Riemann surface |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02125133 |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |language=en |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=421–431 |doi=10.1007/BF02125133 |bibcode=1989CMaPh.126..421J |issn=1432-0916}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Ritter |first2=Gordon |date=2008-05-01 |title=Reflection Positivity and Monotonicity |journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics |volume=49 |issue=5 |pages=052301 |doi=10.1063/1.2907660 |issn=0022-2488|arxiv=0705.0712 |bibcode=2008JMP....49e2301J }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Jäkel |first2=Christian D. |last3=Martinez |first3=Roberto E. |date=2014-02-01 |title=Complex classical fields: An example |journal=Journal of Functional Analysis |volume=266 |issue=3 |pages=1833–1881 |doi=10.1016/j.jfa.2013.08.033 |issn=0022-1236|doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Pedrocchi |first2=Fabio L. |date=2014-02-01 |title=Topological Order and Reflection Positivity |journal=EPL (Europhysics Letters) |volume=105 |issue=4 |pages=40002 |doi=10.1209/0295-5075/105/40002 |issn=0295-5075|arxiv=1310.5370 |bibcode=2014EL....10540002J }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Pedrocchi |first2=Fabio L. |date=2015 |title=Reflection Positivity for Majoranas |journal=Annales Henri Poincaré |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=189–203 |doi=10.1007/s00023-014-0311-y |issn=1424-0637|arxiv=1305.1792 |bibcode=2015AnHP...16..189J }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Pedrocchi |first2=Fabio L. |date=2015 |title=Reflection Positivity for Parafermions |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=337 |issue=1 |pages=455–472 |doi=10.1007/s00220-015-2340-x |issn=0010-3616|arxiv=1406.1384 |bibcode=2015CMaPh.337..455J }}{{Cite journal |last1=Chesi |first1=Stefano |last2=Jaffe |first2=Arthur |last3=Loss |first3=Daniel |last4=Pedrocchi |first4=Fabio L. |date=2013-05-27 |title=Vortex loops and Majoranas |journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics |volume=54 |issue=11 |doi=10.1063/1.4829273 |arxiv=1305.6270v3 |bibcode=2013JMP....54k2203C |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Janssens |first2=Bas |date=2015-06-12 |title=Characterization of Reflection Positivity: Majoranas and Spins |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=346 |issue=3 |pages=1021–1050 |doi=10.1007/s00220-015-2545-z |arxiv=1506.04197v2 |language=en}} introducing important generalizations,{{cite arXiv |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |title=Reflection Positive Doubles |date=2016-07-24 |eprint=1607.07126 |last2=Janssens |first2=Bas|class=math-ph }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |date=2017 |title=Planar Para Algebras, Reflection Positivity |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=352 |issue=1 |pages=95–133 |doi=10.1007/s00220-016-2779-4 |issn=0010-3616|arxiv=1602.02662 |bibcode=2017CMaPh.352...95J }}{{Cite arXiv |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Jäkel |first2=Christian D. |last3=Martinez II |first3=Roberto E. |date=2012-01-29 |title=Complex Classical Fields: A Framework for Reflection Positivity |class=math-ph |eprint=1201.6003v2 |language=en}} and providing geometric interpretations.{{Cite arXiv |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |date=2019-01-30 |title=Reflection Positivity and Levin-Wen Models |class=math-ph |eprint=1901.10662v1 |language=en}}{{Cite arXiv |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |date=2020-06-06 |title=A Mathematical Picture Language Project |class=math-ph |eprint=2006.03954v1 |language=en}}

Jaffe is also known for his mathematical proof of an aspect of the abelian Higgs mechanism. Namely, he showed that symmetry breaking in the abelian Higgs model induces a gap in the mass spectrum.{{Citation |last1=Balaban |first1=Tadeusz |title=Renormalization of the Higgs Model: Minimizers, Propagators and the Stability of Mean Field Theory |date=1985 |work=Quantum Field Theory: A Selection of Papers in Memoriam Kurt Symanzik |pages=299–329 |editor-last=Jaffe |editor-first=Arthur |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70307-2_17 |access-date=2024-04-20 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-70307-2_17 |isbn=978-3-642-70307-2 |last2=Imbrie |first2=John |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |editor2-last=Lehmann |editor2-first=Harry |editor3-last=Mack |editor3-first=Gerhard|hdl=2027.42/46529 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Imbrie |first2=John |last3=Balaban |first3=Tadeusz |date=1988 |title=Effective Action and Cluster Properties of the Abelian Higgs Model |url=https://uva.theopenscholar.com/files/john-imbrie/files/effectiveaction.pdf |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=114 |issue=2 |pages=257–315|doi=10.1007/BF01225038 |bibcode=1988CMaPh.114..257B }}{{Cite journal |last1=Balaban |first1=Tadeusz |last2=Imbrie |first2=John |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |last4=Brydges |first4=David |date=1984-12-01 |title=The mass gap for Higgs models on a unit lattice |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984AnPhy.158..281B |journal=Annals of Physics |volume=158 |issue=2 |pages=281–319 |doi=10.1016/0003-4916(84)90121-0 |bibcode=1984AnPhy.158..281B |issn=0003-4916}}

Within his work on supersymmetric quantum field theories Jaffe is most known for introducing the JLO cocycle, along with collaborators Andrzej Lesniewski and Konrad Osterwalder.{{Cite book |last=Kastler |first=D. |chapter=KMS states, cyclic cohomology and supersymmetry |date=1990 |editor-last=Doebner |editor-first=H. -D. |editor2-last=Hennig |editor2-first=J. -D. |title=Quantum Groups |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-53503-9_55 |series=Lecture Notes in Physics |volume=370 |language=en |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer |pages=375–397 |doi=10.1007/3-540-53503-9_55 |isbn=978-3-540-46647-5}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Lesniewski |first2=Andrzej |last3=Osterwalder |first3=Konrad |date=1988 |title=Quantum $K$-theory. I. The Chern character |url=https://projecteuclid.org/journals/communications-in-mathematical-physics/volume-118/issue-1/Quantum-K-theory-I-The-Chern-character/cmp/1104161905.full |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=118 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1007/BF01218474 |bibcode=1988CMaPh.118....1J |issn=0010-3616}} The JLO construction takes as input a supersymmetric quantum field theory (mathematically, a θ-summable spectral triple) and outputs a cocycle in Alain Connes' cyclic cohomology.

In his later years Arthur Jaffe has made varied contributions to the theory of quantum information, along with postdoctoral researchers Zhengwei Liu, Kaifeng Bu, and students.{{Cite arXiv |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |last3=Wozniakowski |first3=Alex |date=2016-05-01 |title=Compressed Teleportation |class=quant-ph |eprint=1605.00321v1 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |last3=Wozniakowski |first3=Alex |date=2016-11-19 |title=Constructive simulation and topological design of protocols |journal=New Journal of Physics |volume=19 |issue=6 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/aa5b57 |arxiv=1611.06447v2 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Liu |first2=Zhengwei |last3=Wozniakowski |first3=Alex |date=2016-04-30 |title=Holographic software for quantum networks |journal=Science China Mathematics |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=593–626 |doi=10.1007/s11425-017-9207-3 |arxiv=1605.00127v5 |language=en}}{{Cite arXiv |last1=Li |first1=Lu |last2=Bu |first2=Kaifeng |last3=Koh |first3=Dax Enshan |last4=Jaffe |first4=Arthur |last5=Lloyd |first5=Seth |date=2022-08-12 |title=Wasserstein Complexity of Quantum Circuits |class=quant-ph |eprint=2208.06306v1 |language=en}} Notable among these contributions are the introduction of quantum Fourier analysis,{{Cite journal |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |last2=Jiang |first2=Chunlan |last3=Liu |first3=Zhengwei |last4=Ren |first4=Yunxiang |last5=Wu |first5=Jinsong |date=2020-02-10 |title=Quantum Fourier analysis |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=117 |issue=20 |pages=10715–10720 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2002813117 |doi-access=free |pmid=32354991 |pmc=7245120 |arxiv=2002.03477v1 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11710715J |language=en}}{{Cite arXiv |last1=Bu |first1=Kaifeng |last2=Gu |first2=Weichen |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |date=2023-02-16 |title=Discrete Quantum Gaussians and Central Limit Theorem |class=quant-ph |eprint=2302.08423v2 |language=en}} the study of quantum resources,{{Cite arXiv |last1=Bu |first1=Kaifeng |last2=Gu |first2=Weichen |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |date=2023-06-15 |title=Stabilizer Testing and Magic Entropy |class=quant-ph |eprint=2306.09292v1 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Liyuan |last2=Garcia |first2=Roy J. |last3=Bu |first3=Kaifeng |last4=Jaffe |first4=Arthur |date=2024 |title=Magic of random matrix product states |journal=Physical Review B |volume=109 |issue=17 |page=174207 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.109.174207 |arxiv=2211.10350v3 |bibcode=2024PhRvB.109q4207C |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Garcia |first1=Roy J. |last2=Bu |first2=Kaifeng |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |date=2023 |title=Resource theory of quantum scrambling |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=120 |issue=17 |pages=e2217031120 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2217031120 |doi-access=free |pmid=37071685 |pmc=10151511 |arxiv=2208.10477v2 |bibcode=2023PNAS..12017031G |language=en}} quantum error correction,{{cite journal |last1=Cain |first1=Madelyn |title=Correlated decoding of logical algorithms with transversal gates |date=2024-03-05 |arxiv=2403.03272 |last2=Zhao |first2=Chen |last3=Zhou |first3=Hengyun |last4=Meister |first4=Nadine |last5=Ataides |first5=J. Pablo Bonilla |last6=Jaffe |first6=Arthur |last7=Bluvstein |first7=Dolev |last8=Lukin |first8=Mikhail D.|journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=133 |issue=24 |page=240602 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.240602 |bibcode=2024PhRvL.133x0602C }} and the introduction of a 3D graphical language for quantum information.{{Cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=Zhengwei |last2=Wozniakowski |first2=Alex |last3=Jaffe |first3=Arthur |date=2016-12-08 |title=Quon 3D language for quantum information |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=114 |issue=10 |pages=2497–2502 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1621345114 |doi-access=free |pmid=28167790 |pmc=5347593 |arxiv=1612.02630v3 |language=en}}

Jaffe is the author of several essays on the philosophy of mathematics and physics, with a special emphasis on the role of proof and rigor in these subjects.{{Cite book |last=Jaffe |first=Arthur |title=New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics |publisher=University of Odense Press |year=2003 |editor-last=Hoff Kjeldsen |editor-first=Tinne |chapter=The Role of Rigorous Proof in Modern Mathematical Thinking}}{{Cite book |last=Jaffe |first=Arthur |title=New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics |publisher=University of Odense Press |year=2003 |editor-last=Hoff Kjeldsen |editor-first=Tinne |chapter=Interactions between Mathematics and Theoretical Physics}}{{Cite web |date=2000-07-28 |title=Equations for universal truth |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/equations-for-universal-truth/152820.article |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Jaffe |first=Arthur |date=1997 |title=Proof and the Evolution of Mathematics |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20117623 |journal=Synthese |volume=111 |issue=2 |pages=133–146 |doi=10.1023/A:1004903010713 |jstor=20117623 |issn=0039-7857}} The most influential of these works was his essay with Frank Quinn, which introduced the notion of "Theoretical Mathematics".{{Citation |last1=Jaffe |first1=Arthur |title=Theoretical mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics |date=1993-06-30 |last2=Quinn |first2=Frank|arxiv=math/9307227 |bibcode=1993math......7227J }} An issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society was devoted to responses to this article, written by leading mathematicians.{{Citation |last1=Atiyah |first1=Michael |title=Responses to Theoretical Mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics, by A. Jaffe and F. Quinn |date=1994-03-31 |last2=Borel |first2=Armand |last3=Chaitin |first3=G. J. |last4=Friedan |first4=Daniel |last5=Glimm |first5=James |last6=Gray |first6=Jeremy J. |last7=Hirsch |first7=Morris W. |last8=MacLane |first8=Saunder |last9=Mandelbrot |first9=Benoit B.|arxiv=math/9404229 |bibcode=1994math......4229A }}

Arthur Jaffe is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 1979 he was awarded the New York Academy of Science prize in Mathematics and Physics.{{Cite web |last=Jaffe |first=Arthur |date=2021 |title=Arthur Jaffe's CV |url=https://www.arthurjaffe.com/Assets/pdf/Jaffe-2021CV.pdf}} In 1980 Arthur Jaffe was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. In 1990 he was awarded the Medal Collège de France.{{Cite web |title=Arthur M. Jaffe – Hagler Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://hias.tamu.edu/fellow/arthur-m-jaffe/ |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=hias.tamu.edu}} In 2018 he was awarded the ICCM prize for best mathematical paper in the last five years.{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=2018 annual meeting of International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians |url=https://mathpicture.fas.harvard.edu/files/mathpicture/files/2018-iccm-best-paper-award.pdf}} In 2020 he was awarded the Science China Mathematics Award for best editor. Jaffe has been an invited speak at many distinguished conferences, including the 1978 International Congress of Mathematicians at Helsinki.{{Cite web |title=ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers {{!}} International Mathematical Union (IMU) |url=https://www.mathunion.org/icm-plenary-and-invited-speakers?combine=jaffe |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.mathunion.org}}

Additionally, Jaffe is a fellow of many mathematical societies, including the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, American Physical Society, [https://www.siam.org/prizes-recognition/fellows-program/all-siam-fellows/j Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians], American Mathematical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, US National Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Jaffe was married from 1971 to 1992 to Nora Frances Crow and they had one daughter, Margaret Collins, born in 1986. Jaffe was married to artist Sarah Robbins Warren from 1992 to 2002.

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• [http://www.arthurjaffe.net/ Jaffe's website]
• [https://mathpicture.fas.harvard.edu Mathematical Picture Language Project at Harvard University]
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• [https://www.dias.ie/2016/03/22/current-governing-boards-of-the-constituent-schools/ Dublin Institute for Advanced Study: Governing Boards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105212528/https://www.dias.ie/2016/03/22/current-governing-boards-of-the-constituent-schools/ |date=5 November 2020 }}
• {{cite web|title=School of Theoretical Physics Statutory Public Lecture "Beauty and Truth in Mathematics and Physics"|date=June 14, 2016|publisher=Oracle Pictures|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BM4iuELU-g |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/2BM4iuELU-g |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}} (lecture by Arthur Jaffe, 18 May 2016, Trinity College Dublin)
• {{cite web|title=Arthur Jaffe {{!}} Is relativity compatible with quantum theory?|date=December 2, 2020|publisher=Harvard CMSA|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgQixyA2Gcs}}
• {{cite web|title=Arthur Jaffe (Harvard): Remembering the Future.|date=June 20, 2021|publisher=IMBM Istanbul Matematiksel Bilimler Merkezi|website=YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPCB33-dhfI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/pPCB33-dhfI |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}
• [https://www.ams.org/about-us/presidents/presidents List of Past AMS Presidents (Jaffe is the 54th.)]

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