The Hilbert Space Structure Condition for Quantum Field Theories with Indefinite Metric and Transformations with Linear Functionals

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-295

  Hofmann, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axiomatic QFT; GNS representation; Indefinite metric; Krein spaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000726448     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007393411896     Document Type: Article

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