Markov Traces as Characters for Local Algebras

Rehren, Karl-Henning

doi:10.1016/0920-5632(91)90139-6

Markov Traces as Characters for Local Algebras

Karl-Henning Rehren
(
- Utrecht U.
)

Mar, 1990

10 pages

Published in:

Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 18 (1991) 259-268

Contribution to:

4th Annecy Meeting on Theoretical Physics: Recent Advances in Field Theory

DOI:

10.1016/0920-5632(91)90139-6

Report number:

THU-90/16

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Abstract: (Elsevier)

Statistics governs the superselection structure of local quantum field theory. The intrinsic information is encoded in Markov traces, which characterize equivalence classes of irreducible representations (sectors) as well as their composition rules. The Markov traces also provide a tool to classify (quantum) symmetries.

talk
axiomatic field theory
superselection rule
algebra: representation
statistics
braid group
mathematical methods: stochastic

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