Krein spaces in de Sitter quantum theories

Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gazeau, Jean Pierre ^a   Siegl, Petr ^b   Youssef, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

De Sitter group; Gupta Bleuler; Krein spaces; Undecomposable representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052655444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18150659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2010.011     Document Type: Article

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