Research Catalog

Title

PCT, spin and statistics, and all that / R.F. Streater, A.S. Wightman.

Author

Streater, R. F. (Raymond Frederick)

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000 printing.

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Additional Authors

Wightman, A. S.

Description

viii, 207 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• "PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That is the classic summary of and introduction to the achievements of Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory. This theory gives precise mathematical responses to questions like: What is a quantized field? What are the physically indispensable attributes of a quantized field? Furthermore, Axiomatic, Field Theory shows that a number of physically important predictions of quantum field theory are mathematical consequences of the axioms.
• Here Raymond Streater and Arthur Wightman treat only results that can be rigorously proved, and these are presented in an elegant style that makes them available to a broad range of physics and theoretical mathematics."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• Princeton landmarks in physics
• Princeton paperbacks

Uniform Title

• Princeton landmarks in mathematics and physics.
• Princeton paperbacks.

Subject

• Quantum field theory

Note

• "Originally published in 1964 as part of the Mathematical physics monograph series, by W.A. Benjamin, Inc."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Relativistic Transformation Laws. 1-1. Super-Selection Rules. 1-2. Symmetry Operations. 1-3. The Lorentz and Poincare Groups. 1-4. Relativistic Transformation Laws of States -- Ch. 2. Some Mathematical Tools. 2-1. Definition of Distribution. 2-2. Fourier Transforms. 2-3. Laplace Transforms and Holomorphic Functions. 2-4. Tubes and Extended Tubes. 2-5. The Edge of the Wedge Theorem. 2-6. Hilbert Space -- Ch. 3. Fields and Vacuum Expectation Values. 3-1. Axioms for the Notions of Field and Field Theory. 3-2. Independence and Compatibility of the Axioms. 3-3. Properties of the Vacuum Expectation Values. 3-4. The Reconstruction Theorem: Recovery of a Theory from its Vacuum Expectation Values. 3-5. Symmetries in a Field Theory -- Ch. 4. Some General Theorems of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory. 4-1. The Global Nature of Local Commutativity. 4-2. Properties of the Polynomial Algebra of an Open Set. 4-3. The PCT Theorem. 4-4. Spin and Statistics.
• 4-5. Haag's Theorem and Its Generalizations. 4-6. Equivalence Classes of Local Fields (Borchers Classes).

ISBN

0691070628

LCCN

00061116

OCLC

• ocm44777230
• SCSB-4039273

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Columbia University Libraries