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Unitary Representations and Osterwalder-Schrader Duality

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The notions of reflection, symmetry, and positivity from quantum field theory are shown to induce a duality operation for a general class of unitary representations of Lie groups. The semisimple Lie groups which have this cc-duality are identified and they are placed in the context of Harish-Chandra's legacy for the unitary representations program. Our paper begins with a discussion of path space measures, which is the setting where reflection positivity (Osterwalder-Schrader) was first identified as a useful tool of analysis.

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@article{arxiv.math/9908031,
  title  = {Unitary Representations and Osterwalder-Schrader Duality},
  author = {Palle E. T. Jorgensen and Gestur Ólafsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9908031},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

68 pages; Dedicated to the memory of Irving E. Segal