Lorentz covariance and kinetic charge |
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Authors: | P. Basarab-Horwath R. F. Streater J. Wright |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Bedford College, NW1 4NS London, England |
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Abstract: | There is a one-to-one correspondence between inequivalent covariant displaced Fock representations of the free relativistic field and the 1-cohomology of the Poincaré group with coefficients in the 1-particle space.Representations with positive energy are obtained from cocycles with finite energy which have particle-like properties and are interpreted as condensed states of matter without a sharply defined mass.The 1-cohomology groups ofP+ are calculated. These are trivial in 3- or 4-dimensional space-time, or if the mass is non-zero. Non-trivial cocycles for subgroups lead to representations in whichP-invariance is spontaneously broken. We recoverP-invariance in a direct integral representation possessing a gauge group, and a superselection structure labelled by the velocities of the condensed states of matter which are the cocycles determining each irreducible component of the representation. A model in 4-dimensional space-time is constructed. |
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