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The Wightman axioms and the mass gap for weakly coupled (Φ4)3 quantum field theories

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The weakly coupled λΦ4 quantum field theory models in three space time dimensions exist and satisfy all the Wightman axioms.The mass operator \(M = (H^2 - \vec P^2 )^{1/2} \)has an isolated simple eigenvalue at zero and no spectrum in the interval (0, m) for some m > 0.

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Feldman, J.S., Osterwalder, K. (1975). The Wightman axioms and the mass gap for weakly coupled (Φ4)3 quantum field theories. In: Araki, H. (eds) International Symposium on Mathematical Problems in Theoretical Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013314

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