Noninteraction of waves in two-dimensional conformal field theory
Yoh Tanimoto
July 13, 2011
In higher dimensional quantum field theory, irreducible representations of
the Poincare group are associated with particles. Their counterpart in
two-dimensional massless models are "waves" introduced by Buchholz. In this
paper we show that waves do not interact in two-dimensional Moebius covariant
theories and in- and out-asymptotic fields coincide. We identify the set of the
collision states of waves with the subspace generated by the chiral components
of the Moebius covariant net from the vacuum. It is also shown that
Bisognano-Wichmann property, dilation covariance and asymptotic completeness
(with respect to waves) imply Moebius symmetry.
Under natural assumptions, we observe that the maps which give asymptotic
fields in Poincare covariant theory are conditional expectations between
appropriate algebras. We show that a two-dimensional massless theory is
asymptotically complete and noninteracting if and only if it is a chiral
Moebius covariant theory.
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