Linear independence of field operators at different space-time points

✍ Scribed by K. Just; K. Kraus

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 171 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-9017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00417598

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that a Wightman field (or, more generally, a local field polynomial)A(x) cannot satisfy any linear relation of the form ff(x)A(x) dx = 0 with a compact-support test function f(x) ~ 0 unless A(x) describes free particles.