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On Infravacua and the Localisation of Sectors

Mathematical Physics 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

A certain class of superselection sectors of the free massless scalar field in 3 space dimensions is considered. It is shown that these sectors, which cannot be localised with respect to the vacuum, acquire a much better localisation, namely in spacelike cones, when viewed in front of suitable ``infravacuum'' backgrounds. These background states coincide, essentially, with a class of states introduced by Kraus, Polley and Reents as models for clouds of infrared radiation.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/9806003,
  title  = {On Infravacua and the Localisation of Sectors},
  author = {Walter Kunhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/9806003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX, 18 pages, minor corrections in order to conform with published version