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Reflection Positivity and Monotonicity

Mathematical Physics 2008-11-26 v2 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

We prove general reflection positivity results for both scalar fields and Dirac fields on a Riemannian manifold, and comment on applications to quantum field theory. As another application, we prove the inequality CDCNC_D \leq C_N between Dirichlet and Neumann covariance operators on a manifold with a reflection.

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@article{arxiv.0705.0712,
  title  = {Reflection Positivity and Monotonicity},
  author = {Arthur Jaffe and Gordon Ritter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0712},
  year   = {2008}
}
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