On infravacua and superselection theory
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Publication:4701604
DOI10.1063/1.532454zbMATH Open0935.81043arXivhep-th/9704212OpenAlexW2149131198MaRDI QIDQ4701604FDOQ4701604
Authors: Walter Kunhardt 
Publication date: 21 November 1999
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In the DHR theory of superselection sectors, one usually considers states which are local excitations of some vacuum state. Here, we extend this analysis to local excitations of a class of "infravacuum" states appearing in models with massless particles. We show that the corresponding superselection structure, the statistics of superselection sectors and the energy-momentum spectrum are the same as with respect to the vacuum state. (The latter result is obtained with a novel method of expressing the shape of the spectrum in terms of properties of local charge transfer cocycles.) These findings provide evidence to the effect that infravacua are a natural starting point for the analysis of the superselection structure in theories with long-range forces.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704212
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