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Space and time from translation symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the notions of space and time in algebraic quantum field theory arise from translation symmetry if we assume asymptotic commutativity. We argue that this construction can be applied to string theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0601035,
  title  = {Space and time from translation symmetry},
  author = {Albert Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0601035},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, Essential changes and additions, in particular, in the discussion of string field theory

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