Reflection positivity for the circle group

DOI10.1088/1742-6596/597/1/012004MaRDI QIDQ6256264zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Karl-Hermann Neeb, Gestur Ólafsson

Publication date 10 November 2014

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/597/1/012004

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: In this note we characterize those unitary one-parameter groups U^c which admit euclidean realizations in the sense that they are obtained by the analytic continuation process corresponding to reflection positivity from a unitary representation

U

of the circle group. These are precisely the ones for which there exists an anti-unitary involution

J

commuting with

U^{c}

. This provides an interesting link with the modular data arising in Tomita--Takesaki theory. Introducing the concept of a positive definite function with values in the space of sesquilinear forms, we further establish a link between KMS states and reflection positivity on the circle.

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