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Two uniqueness results on the Unruh effect and on PCT-symmetry

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

Abstract

The Unruh effect and a closely related form of PCT-symmetry have been proved in general for finite-component Wightman fields by Bisognano and Wichmann. While this result incorporates most of the fields occurring in four-dimensional high-energy physics, there still are field theories of interest that are not covered (e.g., low-dimensional anyon fields and infinite-component fields). From the spectrum condition, Borchers has derived a couple of commutation relations which 'almost, but only almost' imply the Unruh effect and PCT-symmetry. We show that this result does imply the Unruh effect and PCT-symmetry provided that the operators involved in Borchers' commutation relations act geometrically on a local net of observables.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0010008,
  title  = {Two uniqueness results on the Unruh effect and on PCT-symmetry},
  author = {B. Kuckert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0010008},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

33 pages, 4 figures, minor stylistic corrections in revised version