Published September 2010 | Version v1
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Reconstruction in quantum field theory with a fundamental length

  • 1. I. E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, Moscow 119991 (Russian Federation)

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In this paper, we establish an analog of Wightman's reconstruction theorem for nonlocal quantum field theory with a fundamental length. In our setting, the Wightman generalized functions are defined on test functions analytic in a complex l-neighborhood of the real space and are localizable at scales large compared to l. The causality condition is formulated as continuity of the field commutator in an appropriate topology associated with the light cone. We prove that the relevant function spaces are nuclear and derive the kernel theorems for the corresponding classes of multilinear functionals, which provides the basis for the reconstruction procedure. Special attention is given to the accurate determination of the domain of the reconstructed quantum fields in the Hilbert space of states. We show that the primitive common invariant domain must be suitably extended to implement the (quasi)localizability and causality conditions.

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
51
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 093520-093520.20
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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