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Motivation behind reflection positivity
I have taken a look at this physicsSE question, Wikipedia, and this paper by Jaffe which go over reflection positivity. While they all nicely explain the definition behind reflection positivity and ...
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About sending time to infinity in a slightly imaginary direction in QFT
I am going through the Peskin and Schroeder QFT book. While proving the Gell-Mann and Low theorem in chapter 4 of their book, the authors started with the equation
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e^{-iHT}|0\rangle = ...
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Choice of folliation in path integral
Assume we have a scalar field theory for a field $\phi$. Can we think of the Hilbert space as being spanned by states of the form $|\varphi\rangle$ for configurations $\varphi\in C^\infty(\mathbb{R}^3)...
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Hermitian conjugation in Radial Quantization
I'm a little confused about Hermitian conjugation in a radially quantized CFT. Now, in the Minkowski theory, Hermitian conjugation leaves the coordinates invariant, i.e. $t^\dagger = t$ and $x^\dagger ...
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