Essential self-adjointness of Wick squares in quasi-free Hadamard representations on curved spacetimes

DOI10.1063/1.3703516zbMath1275.81075arXiv1010.3978OpenAlexW2052713842MaRDI QIDQ2860738

Ko Sanders

Publication date: 20 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3978

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Topological linear spaces of test functions, distributions and ultradistributions (46F05)

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