Algebraic characterization of the vacuum for quantized fields transforming non-unitarily

DOI10.2140/PJM.1989.137.387MaRDI QIDQ1824832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Irving E. Segal

Publication date 1989

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1989.137.387

zbMATH Keywords

boson casecontinuous one- parameter group of linear symplectic transformationspositivityself-adjointnessvacuum as an expectation value form on the Clifford or Weyl algebra over an orthogonal or symplectic real linear space, invariant under a given group of automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Review text

The vacuum as an expectation value form on the Clifford or Weyl algebra over an orthogonal or symplectic real linear space, invariant under a given group of automorphisms, is treated without assumptions as to self- adjointness or positivity. For instance if U(.) is a continuous one- parameter group of linear symplectic transformations fixing no non zero vector in an hilbertizable linear symplectic space (E,\(\sigma)\) and \(\sigma\) (U(t)x,y) bounded as a function of t, and if E is a linear functional on the Weyl algebra over \((E,\sigma),E(1)=1\), \(E(W(-z))=\bar E(W(z))\) and obey to some analyticity conditions, then U is unitary with positive generator on some hilbertization of E and E coincide with the free vacuum. An analogous result hold for the boson case.

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