Causal symmetry transformations and their representations by semigroups (Q2461708)

The paper pursues an alternative approach to quantum mechanics. Motivated by the description of resonances the authors introduce semigroup representations of the Poincaré group. States and observables are described by two different Hardy spaces. Time translation is implemented as a semigroup representation on these spaces. The author suggest that -- as opposed to standard quantum mechanics -- this provides the analyticity properties for a consistent theory of resonances and appropriately represents causality.