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Tested positive moments reconstruct closable smeared fields
Statement
Assume Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and let be a positive tempered moment family on as in Positive tempered moments on the tensor test algebra. Write for its linear extension, and let , , and be the group and pullbacks of Proper-orthochronous Poincaré action and test pullback and Proper-orthochronous Poincaré pullbacks act continuously on Schwartz space. Let be the GNS construction of GNS Hilbert reconstruction with invariant operator domain for this functional, with the first-variable- linear Hilbert pairing.
For , put in degree one and . Then is a common invariant dense domain, every is closable with , and is a weak operator-valued tempered distribution in the exact sense of Weak operator-valued tempered distribution on a common domain. Its vacuum moments are exactly the input:
The following additional conclusions are conditional on additional moment identities.
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If for every , then there is a strongly continuous unitary representation on fixing and satisfying
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Let be the complex test functions of Test function space d of an open set, viewed as elements of under the canonical inclusion of Test function inclusion in schwartz space is continuous. In this definition, and are the closures in of their nonzero sets and hence compact. If these supports are spacelike separated, meaning for every , , and then on . More generally, any polynomial relation satisfying for all is represented by on ; tested field equations are instances of this statement when their required identities are assumed.
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For translations define If is translation-invariant, each is a bounded continuous function and hence a regular tempered distribution; applying the symmetry-implementation lemma to the translation subgroup gives strongly continuous unitaries . If, in addition, for every , with the Fourier convention of Minkowski Fourier transform and forward-cone support convention, then the reconstructed translation matrix coefficients have precisely the same Fourier support. This is a matrix-coefficient spectrum condition; it does not assert joint self-adjoint energy-momentum generators or their joint spectral measure.
This theorem reconstructs a weak field only from supplied, actually positive continuous moments. It does not construct an unspecified positive functional, complete a formal perturbation series, or establish the full Wightman reconstruction theorem with assumptions not listed here.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice ; a positive tempered moment family ; the proper-orthochronous Poincaré pullback of Proper-orthochronous Poincaré action and test pullback; and the GNS inputs described below. The covariance, locality, and spectrum conclusions use only the additional identities stated alongside those conclusions.
Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) is assumed for the Hilbert completion in the GNS supplier and for its cited Fourier suppliers; no full Axiom of Choice is assumed.
Positive tempered moments on the tensor test algebra: consists of finite sums of algebraic tensor powers with concatenation product and reversal/conjugation involution; each is a continuous linear functional on ; the extension satisfies and .
GNS Hilbert reconstruction with invariant operator domain: under Countable Choice and these positive normalized algebraic-state hypotheses, the quotient has a Hilbert completion and a common invariant dense domain , with , , and ; each represented operator is closable and its adjoint restricts to on the common domain.
Positive-state Cauchy–Schwarz and left radical: , including zero-norm cases.
Weak operator-valued tempered distribution on a common domain: weak operator-valued temperedness means continuity of each first-variable-linear matrix coefficient for .
Proper-orthochronous Poincaré action and test pullback and Proper-orthochronous Poincaré pullbacks act continuously on Schwartz space: ; the pullbacks are continuous on and induce a group of unital star-automorphisms on the algebraic tensor algebra, with continuous coefficient dependence for each finite tensor polynomial.
State-preserving symmetries implemented unitarily: for a state-preserving action of a topological group, continuity at the identity of every coefficient yields a strongly continuous unitary implementation on the GNS Hilbert space, fixing the cyclic vector and implementing the action on the common domain.
Minkowski Fourier transform and forward-cone support convention: is defined by bilinear transposition of ; support in means vanishing on every compact test supported off that cone.
Polynomial growth functions define tempered distributions: a locally integrable function bounded by a polynomial outside compact sets defines a regular tempered distribution.
For covariance, assume for every .
For tested locality, assume the displayed commutator moment identity for all and all with the stated spacelike-separated supports.
For tested relations, fix and assume for every .
For the matrix-coefficient spectrum conclusion, assume translation invariance and for every .
Proof
For , the product test map satisfies the seminorm identity in [F1]: every joint Schwartz seminorm is the product of the corresponding four-dimensional seminorms. It is therefore continuous multilinear. Since each is continuous, fixing all but one factor and evaluating on gives a continuous linear functional of the remaining test.
Apply [F2] to the positive normalized functional on the unital star algebra . Under the Countable Choice premise [A1] this produces , the common invariant dense quotient domain , the closable representation , and the unit cyclic vector .
Assume [A4]. For the fixed , [F2] gives for every . The classes are dense in , so for each ; hence on . Taking and [A3] proves the stated locality conclusion. Any tested field equation is obtained by the same substitution of its own polynomial relation, without adding an unstated identity.
For , the GNS quotient pairing gives Because and are finite sums, the right-hand side is a finite sum of distributions evaluated on product tests with in one tensor slot. Step 1.1 makes each term continuous and linear in . Thus every matrix coefficient is tempered, and [F4] shows that is a weak operator-valued tempered distribution on the common domain.
The degree-one map is complex-linear and left multiplication preserves , so is linear and has the stated common invariant domain. By [F2], each is closable and . Repeated application of gives which is the asserted moment identity for . For , the empty product is and .
For fixed , expand them as finite sums of tensor monomials. Under , each test factor varies continuously in Schwartz space by [F5]; the product maps are continuous by step 1.1, so each evaluation and hence is continuous at the identity.
Under the additional invariance hypothesis [A2], the hypotheses of [F6] hold because step 2.3 provides the required coefficient continuity. The lemma supplies strongly continuous unitaries fixing and implementing on . Since , its covariance identity gives .
Assume [A5]. For fixed , [F3] and translation invariance give uniformly in . The coefficient is continuous in by the argument of step 2.3 and the translation subgroup's topology, so it is locally integrable. Its boundedness is polynomial growth of degree zero; [F8] therefore makes it a regular tempered distribution.
Under translation invariance in [A5], restrict the action to the translation subgroup . Step 2.3 gives continuity at the identity of each coefficient on this subgroup; [F6] therefore supplies strongly continuous unitaries fixing and implementing on .
The GNS state-recovery identity and step 3.3 give Equal tempered distributions have equal transposed Fourier transforms by [F7], so the assumed support of is exactly the support of the reconstructed matrix coefficient. No generator or spectral-measure assertion is used.
Depends on
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Positive tempered moments on the tensor test algebra
Weak operator-valued tempered distribution on a common domain
Proper-orthochronous Poincaré action and test pullback
Minkowski Fourier transform and forward-cone support convention
Proper-orthochronous Poincaré pullbacks act continuously on Schwartz space
GNS Hilbert reconstruction with invariant operator domain
Positive-state Cauchy–Schwarz and left radical
State-preserving symmetries implemented unitarily
Polynomial growth functions define tempered distributions
Test function space d of an open set
Test function inclusion in schwartz space is continuous
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Sources
- Konrad Schmüdgen, An Invitation to Unbounded Representations of *-Algebras on Hilbert Space, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 285, Springer Nature (2020)
- Jens Mund, General Aspects of Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, lecture notes, DF-UFJF (2012)
- Christopher J. Fewster and Kasia Rejzner, Algebraic Quantum Field Theory—an introduction, arXiv:1904.04051v2 (2019)