PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That

Raymond F. Streater; Arthur S. Wightman

Published by Princeton University Press 2001

PCT, Spin and Statistics, and All That

Raymond F. Streater and Arthur S. Wightman

Volume 30 in the series Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884230

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About this book

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.

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Raymond F. Streater is Professor of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. Arthur S. Wightman is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Relativistic Transformation Laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
2. Some Mathematical Tools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Fields and Vacuum Expectation Values Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
4. Some General Theorems of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
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