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Local aspects of superselection rules

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We study a theory of short range forces in terms of local observable quantities; among the superselection structure determined by the algebra of all local observables, to each additive independent charge we associate local observables having a meaning analogous to the regularized integrals of charge density fields over a finite volume. Among other assumptions, we require that parastatistics are absent from the theories considered.

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Doplicher, S. Local aspects of superselection rules. Commun.Math. Phys. 85, 73–86 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02029134

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