An algebraic characterization of vacuum states in Minkowski space. III: Reflection maps

zbMATH Open1055.81045arXivmath-ph/0309023MaRDI QIDQ701720FDOQ701720

Authors: Detlev Buchholz, Stephen Jeffrey Summers 

Publication date: 16 December 2004

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

Abstract: Employing the algebraic framework of local quantum physics, vacuum states in Minkowski space are distinguished by a property of geometric modular action. This property allows one to construct from any locally generated net of observables and corresponding state a continuous unitary representation of the proper Poincare group which acts covariantly on the net and leaves the state invariant. The present results and methods substantially improve upon previous work. In particular, the continuity properties of the representation are shown to be a consequence of the net structure, and surmised cohomological problems in the construction of the representation are resolved by demonstrating that, for the Poincare group, continuous reflection maps are restrictions of continuous homomorphisms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0309023

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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