Relations between positivity, localization and degrees of freedom: the Weinberg-Witten theorem and the van Dam-Veltman-Zakharov discontinuity

DOI10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.058zbMath1378.81164arXiv1703.04408OpenAlexW2596425261MaRDI QIDQ679957

Bert Schroer, Jens Mund, Karl-Henning Rehren

Publication date: 22 January 2018

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04408

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25)

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