Massless relativistic wave equations and quantum field theory
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Massless relativistic wave equations and quantum field theory
zbMATH Open document ID: 1054.81027
author: Fernando Lledó
published in: Annales Henri Poincaré
publication date: 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0303031
full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6838
review text: This paper gives a simple and direct construction of massless quantum field theory with arbitrary discrete helicity. First, covariant and massless canonical (Wigner) representations of the Poincaré group are studied in detail. The classical massless relativistic wave equation is used as constraint equation for intertwining these representations. Next, for each helicity, the Haag-Kastler net is given by the use of an embedding of the space of test functions into the Hilbert space of the solutions of the massless wave equation. And the massless quantum field is constructed on the Fock space whose one-particle space is this Hilbert space. It is shown that the field satisfies Wightman axioms and the wave equation in the distributional sense.
reviewed by: Hiroshi Tamura
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81T05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81R15
zbMATH DE Number: 2105070
zbMATH Keywords: massless quantum fields
zbMATH Keywords: representations of Poincaré group
zbMATH Keywords: nontrivial helicity
zbMATH Keywords: Wightman axioms
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2162942007
arXiv ID: math-ph/0303031
DOI: 10.1007/S00023-004-0179-3
description: scientific article