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A model with persistent vacuum

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It is shown that there exists a selfadjoint Hamilton operator corresponding to the interactionH (a)0 +H (b)0 +∫Φ + b (x)Φ a (x)Φ b (x)d 3 x, wherea andb denote two types of scalar particles. We discuss the scattering theory of this operator.

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Work partially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

This paper contains results from the author's Ph. D. Thesis [3].

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Eckmann, J.P. A model with persistent vacuum. Commun.Math. Phys. 18, 247–264 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01649435

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