Mathematical Physics and Symmetry
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 34793
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mathematical physics; Euclidean field theory; reflection positivity; representation theory; operators in Hilbert space; harmonic analysis; fractals; wavelets; stochastic processes; financial mathematics
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Dear Colleagues,
Starting with key ideas on reflection positivity in quantum physics, the subject has moved in a number of other directions, including the study of stochastic processes that appear in the representation theory of Lie groups. Motivated by reflection symmetries in Lie groups, there is a new trend in the study of representation theoretic aspects of reflection positivity: reflection positive Markov processes indexed by Lie groups, measures on path spaces, and invariant Gaussian measures in spaces of distribution vectors. This provides new constructions of reflection positive unitary representations. Since early work in mathematical physics, starting in the 1970s, and initiated by A. Jaffe, and by K. Osterwalder and R. Schrader, the subject of reflection positivity has had an increasing influence on both non-commutative harmonic analysis, and on duality theories for spectrum and geometry. In its original form, the Osterwalder-Schrader idea served to link Euclidean field theory to relativistic quantum field theory. It has been remarkably successful, especially in view of the abelian property of the Euclidean setting, contrasted with the non-commutativity of quantum fields. Osterwalder-Schrader and reflection positivity have also become a powerful tool in the theory of unitary representations of Lie groups.
Prof. Palle E.T. Jorgensen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Reflection positivity
- Quantum physics
- Representations
- Lie groups
- Gaussian measures
- Osterwalder-Schrader
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