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An Exchange Identity for Non-linear Fields

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We establish a useful identity for intertwining a creation or annihilation operator with the heat kernel of a self-interacting bosonic field theory.

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  1. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Arthur Jaffe & Christian Jäkel

  2. Theoretical Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland

    Christian Jäkel

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Communicated by J.Z. Imbrie

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Jaffe, A., Jäkel, C. An Exchange Identity for Non-linear Fields. Commun. Math. Phys. 264, 283–289 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-005-1477-4

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