The physical state space of quantum electrodynamics

DOI10.1007/BF02029133zbMath0506.46052MaRDI QIDQ1836853

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

locality infraparticles sectors positive energy representations spectrum condition factorial subrepresentation infrared minimal representations representations of the quasi-local algebra state space of quantum electrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99)

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