"Dressing" and Haag's theorem

2007/03/06 by M. I. Shirokov, Shirokov, M. I.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #math-ph #math.MP

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Abstract

It is demonstrated that the "dressed particle" approach to relativistic local quantum field theories does not contradict Haag's theorem. On the contrary, "dressing" is the way to overcome the difficulties revealed by Haag's theorem.

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