Why is CPT fundamental?

DOI10.1007/S10701-006-9070-ZMaRDI QIDQ867162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors O. W. Greenberg

Publication date 15 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0309309

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz covarianceCPT theoremgeneral quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Abstract: G. L"uders and W. Pauli proved the $mathcalCPT$ theorem based on Lagrangian quantum field theory almost half a century ago. R. Jost gave a more general proof based on ``axiomatic field theory nearly as long ago. The axiomatic point of view has two advantages over the Lagrangian one. First, the axiomatic point of view makes clear why $mathcalCPT$ is fundamental--because it is intimately related to Lorentz invariance. Secondly, the axiomatic proof gives a simple way to calculate the $mathcalCPT$ transform of any relativistic field without calculating $mathcalC$, $mathcalP$ and $mathcalT$ separately and then multiplying them. The purpose of this pedagogical paper is to ``deaxiomatize the $mathcalCPT$ theorem by explaining it in a few simple steps. We use theorems of distribution theory and of several complex variables without proof to make the exposition elementary.

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