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Passivity and microlocal spectrum condition

Mathematical Physics 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

In the setting of vector-valued quantum fields obeying a linear wave-equation in a globally hyperbolic, stationary spacetime, it is shown that the two-point functions of passive quantum states (mixtures of ground- or KMS-states) fulfill the microlocal spectrum condition (which in the case of the canonically quantized scalar field is equivalent to saying that the two-point function is of Hadamard form). The fields can be of bosonic or fermionic character. We also give an abstract version of this result by showing that passive states of a topological *-dynamical system have an asymptotic pair correlation spectrum of a specific type.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0002021,
  title  = {Passivity and microlocal spectrum condition},
  author = {Hanno Sahlmann and Rainer Verch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0002021},
  year   = {2009}
}

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