Wigner representation theory of the Poincaré group, localization, statistics and the S-matrix

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 499, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 519-546

  Schroer, Bert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Local algebras; Modular theory; Representation theory; Scattering operator; TCP operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031586297     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00358-1     Document Type: Article

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