Spin-Statistics, Spin-Locality, and TCP: Three Distinct Theorems
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
I show that the spin-statistics theorem has been confused with another theorem that I call the spin-locality theorem. I also argue that the spin-statistics theorem properly depends on the properties of asymptotic fields which are free fields. In addition, I discuss how ghosts evade both theorems, give the basis of the spin-statistics theorem for fields without asymptotic limits such as quark and gluon fields, and emphasise the weakness of the requirements for the theorem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9707220,
title = {Spin-Statistics, Spin-Locality, and TCP: Three Distinct Theorems},
author = {O. W. Greenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9707220},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, Latex, no figures. References added. To appear in Phys. Lett. B