Connection between Local Commutativity and Regularity of Wightman Functions

Freeman J. Dyson
Phys. Rev. 110, 579 – Published 15 April 1958
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Abstract

It is proved that a Wightman function (vacuum expectation value of a product of field operators) will be analytic and one valued at a real set of space-time points if and only if the fields possess a property of weak local commutativity at the same points. This statement assumes the validity of TCP invariance. A similar but more complicated statement is proved for theories without TCP invariance.

  • Received 19 December 1957

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.110.579

©1958 American Physical Society

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Freeman J. Dyson

  • Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

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Vol. 110, Iss. 2 — April 1958

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