Modular Theory and Eyvind Wichmann's Contributions to modern Particle Physics Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Some of the consequences of Eyvind Wichmann's contributions to modular theory and the QFT phase-space structure are presented. In order to show the power of those ideas in contemporary problems, I selected the issue of algebraic holography as well as a new nonperturbative constructive approach (based on the modular structur of wedge-localized algebras and modular inclusions) and show that these ideas are recent consequences of the pathbreaking work which Wichmann together with his collaborator Bisognano initiated in the mid 70$^{ies}.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906071,
title = {Modular Theory and Eyvind Wichmann's Contributions to modern Particle Physics Theory},
author = {Bert Schroer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906071},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
A rogue address which entered chapter 2 has since been omitted. 21 pages, tcilatex, to be published in a special Festschrift volume, dedicated to Prof. E. Wichmann on the occasion of his seventieth birthday