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Second-quantized total rotations and helicity counts
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice, , and the bosonic Fock space of Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions. For define the Fock rotation by
where the vacuum sector carries the identity. This is a strongly continuous unitary representation. For a unit axis , its Stone generator is self-adjoint on its exact Stone domain and on finite symmetric tensors with factors in acts as the sector sum
In this statement denotes that Stone generator; the formula specifies its action on the stated finite-particle domain.
Let be the vacuum plus the finite linear span of symmetrized elementary tensors whose one-particle factors lie in . It is a dense invariant domain, and on it the Fock total generators satisfy .
For helicity , define on the -particle sector by
and use its maximal direct-sum domain . Define the helicity-number difference as the self-adjoint sector multiplier with -particle action and exact domain
the vacuum term is zero. On finite-particle vectors . With the natural-unit free radial phase
the Fock lift commutes with , so the helicity-number difference is conserved by this free isotropic propagation. If is a normalized one-photon helicity- vector, meaning and almost everywhere, then When has inverse-length units, has length units in this convention. These are mathematical consequences of the specified one-photon and Fock models, not claims about a measured field or apparatus.
Statement references
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
Transverse one-photon space and helicity projectors
Projected photon spin and orbital operators
Transverse rotations preserve helicity and generate total angular momentum
Projected angular parts are not two independent rotation algebras
Measurable scalarization of the transverse helicity fibers
Second-quantized multipliers, joint spectral measure and exact domains
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Axiom of Choice; ; the transverse one-photon Hilbert space with its rotation and helicity operators; and its bosonic Fock construction.
Assume the Axiom of Choice. It supplies Countable Choice through [F1] and is the hypothesis of Stone's theorem used for the Fock rotation group. The Axiom of Choice
is the square-summable direct sum of symmetric tensor sectors, the vacuum is , and the finite-particle subspace is dense. The pairing is linear in its second variable. Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
is a strongly continuous unitary representation on , the domain is dense, and each is its self-adjoint Stone generator with convention . On its differential expression preserves smoothness, compact support away from , and transversality. Transverse one-photon space and helicity projectors Transverse rotations preserve helicity and generate total angular momentum
The Borel helicity decomposition is a unitary under which is multiplication by and is multiplication by . Measurable scalarization of the transverse helicity fibers
For a sigma-finite measured space and finite-valued measurable , the Fock sector sum of the coordinate multipliers is self-adjoint on the exact square-integrability domain, and the joint Borel spectral measure supplies the corresponding phase groups and exact derivative domains. Second-quantized multipliers, joint spectral measure and exact domains
and on are supplied by Projected photon spin and orbital operators and Projected angular parts are not two independent rotation algebras.
A strongly continuous one-parameter unitary group has a unique self-adjoint Stone generator, with exact domain the norm-differentiability domain. Stone's theorem: unitary groups and self-adjoint generators
Proof
Given: [A1], [F1]–[F7], the one-particle space , and .
For , commutes with the permutation action on , so it preserves the symmetric sector and is unitary there; set its vacuum-sector value to . The tensor and direct-sum definitions in [F2] give . On an elementary tensor, the telescoping estimate shows strong continuity from that of . Density extends it to each symmetric sector; finite-particle vectors are dense by [F2], and approximation by such vectors with unitarity extends continuity to the full Fock direct sum. For each axis, Stone's theorem [F7] supplies the unique self-adjoint generator . For , differentiating the finite tensor product at by the product rule gives the sum of the one-particle derivatives ; symmetrization commutes with the tensor action. Hence the Stone generator acts on these finite symmetric tensors by the displayed sum.
Apply the unitary of [F4] and its Fock lift . Each sector map is unitary because tensor powers preserve inner products and commute with permutations, so is unitary. Put and . The measure is sigma-finite by the bundle definition in [F3], and is finite-valued and measurable. The three coordinates in [F5] therefore give the self-adjoint Fock multipliers , , and on their exact domains; the third linear combination is the self-adjoint sector multiplier . On each finite-particle sector, , so this operator agrees there with the difference . Its full domain is the exact supplied by [F5], not an informal difference of unbounded operators.
The space is dense because is dense in by [F3], algebraic tensors are dense in each Hilbert tensor completion, and finite-particle truncations are dense in the direct sum by [F2]. It is invariant under the sector sums because by [F3]. On an elementary -tensor, expanding each sector sum shows that terms acting on distinct tensor factors commute, while terms on the same factor give ; hence on the symmetrized tensor core by [F6]. This is the asserted Fock total rotation algebra.
In the scalarized one-particle representation, is multiplication by on both helicity components, so its Fock lift is the phase group from [F5]. The joint spectral measure in [F5] makes this group commute with every Borel function of the helicity coordinates, in particular with ; the joint multiplier also preserves its exact domain. Thus for every real , proving the conservation statement.
If , then by [F4]. By [F6], . Taking the Hilbert pairing with , using and , gives the displayed expectation identity. The multiplier is bounded, so the integral is finite.
Remarks
The photon angular-momentum literature uses different names for the helicity-projected vector . This proposition fixes the operator convention and proves only its stated mathematical consequences. It does not quantize pointwise products of electromagnetic fields, prove normal ordering or renormalization statements, or identify a canonical field-theory split with a Poynting or kinetic integral.
Depends on
The Axiom of Choice
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
AC implies DC implies countable choice
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
Stone's theorem: unitary groups and self-adjoint generators
Transverse one-photon space and helicity projectors
Transverse rotations preserve helicity and generate total angular momentum
Projected photon spin and orbital operators
Projected angular parts are not two independent rotation algebras
Measurable scalarization of the transverse helicity fibers
Second-quantized multipliers, joint spectral measure and exact domains