Motivations and physical aims of algebraic QFT

Jul, 1996
38 pages
Published in:
  • Annals Phys. 255 (1997) 270-304
e-Print:
Report number:
  • SFB-288-228,
  • SFB-288-PREPRINT,
  • BERLIN

Citations per year

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We present illustrations which show the usefulness of algebraic QFT. In particular in low-dimensional QFT, when Lagrangian quantization does not exist or is useless (e.g. in chiral conformal theories), the algebraic method is beginning to reveal its strength.
  • axiomatic field theory
  • any-dimensional
  • operator: algebra
  • invariance: modular
  • duality
  • postulated particle: anyon
  • bibliography