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We consider quantum field theoretical models inn dimensional space-time given by interaction densities which are bounded functions of an ultraviolet cut-off boson field. Using methods of euclidean Markov field theory and of classical statistical mechanics, we construct the infinite volume imaginary and real time Wightman functions as limits of the corresponding quantities for the space cut-off models. In the physical Hilbert space, the space-time translations are represented by strongly continuous unitary groups and the generator of time translationsH is positive and has a unique, simple lowest eigenvalue zero, with eigenvector Ω, which is the unique state invariant under space-time translations. The imaginary time Wightman functions and the infinite volume vacuum energy density are given as analytic functions of the coupling constant. The Wightman functions have cluster properties also with respect to space translations.
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Albeverio, S., Høegh-Krohn, R. Uniqueness of the physical vacuum and the Wightman functions in the infinite volume limit for some non polynomial interactions. Commun.Math. Phys. 30, 171–200 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01837357
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