States and observables / 1: |
Probabilistic description / 1.1: |
Functions of observables / 1.2: |
The expectation value of an observable / 1.4: |
Mixture and pure states / 1.5: |
The physical topology of the states / 1.6: |
Equivalent theories / 1.7: |
Symmetries / 1.8: |
Quantum theory / 2: |
The quantum mechanical descrption / 2.1: |
Algebraic viewpoint / 2.2: |
The representation associated with a state: GNS construction / 2.3: |
The symmetries of quantum mechanics / 2.4: |
Symmetries from the algebraic point of view / 2.5: |
The relativistic symmetry / 3: |
Minkowski space / 3.1: |
The inhomogeneous Lorentz group / 3.2: |
The relativistic symmetry in quantum mechanics / 3.3: |
Irreducible representations and one-particle states / 3.4: |
Free particle system and Fock space / 3.5: |
Energy momentum / 3.6: |
Local observables / 4: |
General properties of local observables / 4.1: |
The vacuum state / 4.2: |
Irreducibility / 4.3: |
Mass gap and exponential clustering property / 4.4: |
The JLD representation / 4.5: |
Truncated expectation values and multiple clustering property / 4.6: |
Additivity assumption and Reeh-Schlieder theorem / 4.7: |
Quantum field theory / 4.8: |
From quantum fields to local observables / 4.9: |
Scattering theory / 5: |
The concept of scattering states and the S-matrix / 5.1: |
Description of asymptotic states / 5.2: |
Construction of asymptotic states / 5.3: |
The counter interpretation of asymptotic states--verification of an appropriate asymptotic behaviour / 5.4: |
Asymptotic conditions and reduction formula for the S-matrix / 5.5: |
Analyticity and TCP symmetry / 5.6: |
Sector theory / 6: |
Superselection rules and localized excitations / 6.1: |
Localized endomorphisms and sectors / 6.2: |
Permutation of excitations and statistics of a sector / 6.3: |
Charge conjugate sector / 6.4: |
Operator algebra system of fields and gauge groups / 6.5: |
Theory of local charges / 6.6: |
Hilbert space and operators / Appendix A: |
Hilbert space / A.1: |
Pre-Hilbert space and completion / A.2: |
Orthonormal basis / A.3: |
Unitary and antiunitary maps / A.4: |
Subspaces and projection operators / A.5: |
Direct sum and direct integral / A.6: |
Spectral decomposition / A.7: |
Trace / A.8: |
Unbounded operators / A.9: |
One-parameter group of unitary operators / A.10: |
Tensor product / A.11: |
Operator algebras / Appendix B: |
C* algebras / B.1: |
Von Neumann algebras / B.2: |
Free fields / Appendix C: |
Charged scalar field / C.1: |
One particle system with positive mass and arbitrary spin / C.2: |
Examples of free fields with positive mass and integer spin / C.3: |
Examples of free fields with positive mass and half odd integer spin / C.4: |
General literature and references |
References for Chapter 1 |
References for Chapter 2 |
References for Chapter 3 |
References for Chapter 4 |
References for Chapter 5 |
References for Chapter 6 |
Literature for appendices |
Index |
States and observables / 1: |
Probabilistic description / 1.1: |
Functions of observables / 1.2: |
The expectation value of an observable / 1.4: |
Mixture and pure states / 1.5: |
The physical topology of the states / 1.6: |