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Recently, Borchers has shown that in a theory of local observables, certain unitary and antiunitary operators, which are obtained from an elementary construction suggested by Bisognano and Wichmann, have the same commutation relations with translation operators as Lorentz boosts and P1CT operators would have, respectively. It is concluded from this that as soon as the operators considered implement any symmetry, this symmetry can be fixed up to at most some translation. As a symmetry, any unitary or antiunitary operator is admitted under whose adjoint action any algebra of local observables is mapped onto an algebra which can be localized somewhere in Minkowski space.
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Kuckert, B. Borcher's Commutation Relations, and Modular Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory. Letters in Mathematical Physics 41, 307–320 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007300201901
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