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TMF, 2005 Volume 143, Number 2, Pages 195–210 (Mi tmf1810)

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Two classes of generalized functions used in nonlocal field theory

M. A. Soloviev

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: We elucidate the relation between the two ways of formulating causality in nonlocal quantum field theory: using analytic test functions belonging to the space $S^0$ (which is the Fourier transform of the Schwartz space $\mathcal D$) and using test functions in the Gelfand–Shilov spaces $S^0_\alpha$. We prove that every functional defined on $S^0$ has the same carrier cones as its restrictions to the smaller spaces $S^0_\alpha$. As an application of this result, we derive a Paley–Wiener–Schwartz-type theorem for arbitrarily singular generalized functions of tempered growth and obtain the corresponding extension of Vladimirovs algebra of functions holomorphic in a tubular domain.

Keywords: nonlocal quantum fields, causality, Wightman functions, analytic functionals, Hörmanders estimates, Paley–Wiener–Schwartz-type theorems.

Received: 02.07.2004

DOI: 10.4213/tmf1810


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2005, 143:2, 651–663

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