New light on infrared problems: sectors, statistics, symmetries and spectrum

DOI10.1007/s00220-014-2004-2zbMath1296.81044arXiv1304.2794OpenAlexW3102549075MaRDI QIDQ2510671

John E. Roberts, Detlev Buchholz

Publication date: 1 August 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2794

zbMATH Keywords

superselection sectorsalgebraic quantum field theorymassless particlesstatisticsinfrared singularitycharge classesendomorphic time evolutionlocal observable on a light conephysical state space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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