Superselection sectors and general covariance. I

DOI10.1007/s00220-006-0147-5zbMath1124.81030arXivgr-qc/0511118OpenAlexW2047478911MaRDI QIDQ883035

Romeo Brunetti, Giuseppe Ruzzi

Publication date: 31 May 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511118

zbMATH Keywords

charged superselection sectorslocally covariant quantum field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Categories, functors in functional analysis (46M15) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30)

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