Why there is a field algebra with a compact gauge group describing the superselection structure in particle physics

DOI10.1007/BF02097680zbMath0734.46042MaRDI QIDQ810835

Publication date: 1990

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

particle spectrum; covariance; superselection sector; compact global gauge group acting on a field algebra; compact group of gauge automorphisms of a field net with normal Bose and Fermi commutation rules; covariant field algebra; superselection structure of local quantum theory; theories without massless particles; Topological charges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T05: Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras

46L60: Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics

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