Massless asymptotic fields and Haag-Ruelle theory

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0733-YzbMATH Open1307.81050arXiv1410.7665OpenAlexW1972625499WikidataQ59406365 ScholiaQ59406365MaRDI QIDQ2255402FDOQ2255402

Authors: Paweł Duch, Andrzej Herdegen 

Publication date: 16 February 2015

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

Abstract: We revisit the problem of the existence of asymptotic massless boson fields in quantum field theory. The well-known construction of such fields by Buchholz [2], [4] is based on locality and the existence of vacuum vector, at least in regions spacelike to spacelike cones. Our analysis does not depend on these assumptions and supplies a more general framework for fields only very weakly decaying in spacelike directions. In this setting the existence of appropriate null asymptotes of fields is linked with their spectral properties in the neighborhood of the lightcone. The main technical tool is one of the results of a recent analysis by one of us [11], which allows application of the null asymptotic limit separately to creation/annihilation parts of a wide class of non-local fields. In vacuum representation the scheme allows application of the methods of the Haag-Ruelle theory closely analogous to those of the massive case. In local case this Haag-Ruelle procedure may be combined with the Buchholz method, which leads to significant simplification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7665

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zbMATH Keywords

scattering theoryquantum field theoryHaag-Ruelle theorynonlocal fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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