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For questions about mathematical problems arising from quantum field theory, the branch of physics which describes subatomic particles and their interactions in terms of perturbations of the corresponding scalar, vector or tensor fields.

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Explicit form of this unitary transformation

Disclaimer: This question has its motivation from physics. It is probably not entirely rigorous at the moment. I just want to clarify some steps and try to make the arguments rigorous afterwards, if p …
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The ultraviolet limit as a limiting case of the renormalization group flow?

In his paper Constructive Renormalization Theory, V. Rivasseau describes the idea of Wilson's approach of solving path integrals step by step. In section 1.4, page 5, however, there is a statement whi …
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Rigorous construction of fermionic field theory?

In section X.7 of Reed & Simon's book there is a nice rigorous construction of the free scalar field theory which applies to the Klein-Gordon field. Question: Are there references which discuss, in an …
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Can Fock spaces be replaced by arbitrary Hilbert spaces under some hypothesis to justify pat...

I was reading this post from PSE and it reminded me an old question of mine, in which the use of creation and annihilation operators were discussed. Both questions got answers which agreed on the fact …
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Slice in momentum space?

This is probably a very basic question but I tried physics stack exchange already and I got no answers, so I'm asking the same question here. I was reading this article and the author considers the fo …
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From the conceptual idea of the RG to its actual implementation

Everytime I want to understand a little more about the ideas behind Renormalization Group techniques, I get troubled by a gap between the general picture one usually presents (e.g. in books or pedagog …
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QFT and mathematical rigor

One way to approach QFT in mathematical terms is provided by the so-called Gårding-Wightman axioms, which defines in rigorous mathematical terms what a quantum field theory is supposed to be. If I'm n …
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Two questions about Fock spaces

Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a complex Hilbert space and denote $\mathscr{H}_{n}$ the tensor product $\overbrace{\mathscr{H}\otimes\cdots\otimes\mathscr{H}}^{\text{n}}$. Denote by $\Pi_{\pm}$ the projection o …
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Frontiers of QM and QFT

This is somehow a more mature version of an old question of mine. I'd like to have a more clear picture of the difference between QFT and QM from a mathematical point of view. Okay, so we begin with a …
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Construction of Dirac field theory

In what follows, I'm following Folland's book and Reed & Simon. Notation: Points in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ are denoted by $p =(p_{0},p_{1},p_{2},p_{3})$. Also, I'm using Reed & Simon's notation for the Lore …
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Invariance of Lorentz measure

Let $m > 0$ be fixed. If $x=(x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})$ and $y = (y_{0},y_{1},y_{2},y_{3})$ are elements of $\mathbb{R}^{4}$, we denote the Lorentz inner product by: $$ x\cdot \tilde{y} := x_{0}y_{0}-x …
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Axiomatic QFT, the reconstruction theorem and functional integrals

Before posting my question, let me make some remarks: [MS] Salmhofer's book on renormalization begins with a nice discussion on Feynman's path integral. At some point, the author states the following: …
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Representations of the Lorentz group

The first few lines of this post is based on this lecture notes, but similar expositions can be found in other physics books such as Peskin & Schroeder's book. On chapter 8 of the linked notes, the au …
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Free field rigorous quantization - possibly a misunderstanding?

I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question but I've been struggling with this for days now (and I think this is too technical/specific for math stack). Notation: A conjugation $C$ o …
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Free field rigorous quantization - possibly a misunderstanding?

I think I figured it out. Let $f \in \mathscr{H}$ be arbitrary, where $\mathscr{H}$ here is a complex Hilbert space. Then $f$ can be written uniquely as: $$f = f_{1} + if_{2} $$ where $f_{1},f_{2} \in …
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