nLab separating vector

Contents

Context

Functional analysis

AQFT

algebraic quantum field theory (perturbative, on curved spacetimes, homotopical)

Introduction

Concepts

field theory:

Lagrangian field theory

quantization

quantum mechanical system, quantum probability

free field quantization

gauge theories

interacting field quantization

renormalization

Theorems

States and observables

Operator algebra

Local QFT

Perturbative QFT

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Definition

Let \mathcal{M} be a von Neumann algebra acting on a Hilbert space \mathcal{H}.

A vector xx \in \mathcal{H} is a separating vector if M(x)=0M(x) = 0 implies M=0M = 0 for all MM \in \mathcal{M}.

Properties

The notions of separating vector is dual to that of cyclic vector with respect to the commutant \mathcal{M}', that is a vector is cyclic for \mathcal{M} iff it is separating for \mathcal{M}'.

Applications

In the context of AQFT separating vectors appear as vacuum states . See Reeh-Schlieder theorem.

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