On the CPT theorem

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2013.10.001MaRDI QIDQ2437512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hilary Greaves, Teruji Thomas

Publication date 3 March 2014

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4674

zbMATH Keywords

CPT theoremdiscrete symmetriesquantum field theoryspacetime symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We provide a rigorous proof of the CPT theorem within the framework of 'Lagrangian' quantum field theory. This is in contrast to the usual rigorous proofs in purely axiomatic frameworks, and non-rigorous proof-sketches within the Lagrangian framework.

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