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Theta vacua, charge confinement and charged sectors from nonregular representations of CCR algebras

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Theta-vacua superselection for Bloch electrons, charge confinement in the Schwinger model, fermionic charges, superselection structures in conformal two-dimensional models are shown to follow from general properties of a class of nonregular representations of Weyl algebras.

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  1. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

    F. Acerbi

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università and INFN, Pisa, Italy

    G. Morchio

  3. International School for Advanced Studies and INFN, Trieste, Italy

    F. Strocchi

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Acerbi, F., Morchio, G. & Strocchi, F. Theta vacua, charge confinement and charged sectors from nonregular representations of CCR algebras. Lett Math Phys 27, 1–11 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00739583

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