On infravacua and superselection theory

DOI10.1063/1.532454MaRDI QIDQ4701604zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Kunhardt

Publication date 21 November 1999

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704212

zbMATH Keywords

superselection sectorsenergy-momentum spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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.

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