Abstract
The previous theorem of the author on the analytic structure of the bubble diagram functions that occur in unitary equations (and are kernels of products of connected scattering operatorsS c m,n or (S −1) c m,n , and related quantities), is extended to a class of situations, called here in generalu=0 points, that were not covered by this earlier result.
This new theorem, which is proved on the basis of a refined macrocausality condition, resolves one of the remaining crucial problems in the derivation of discontinuity formulae and related results inS-matrix theory: all points are in factu=0 points for some of the bubble diagram functions, such as ≡⊕≡⊖≡ (≡(S −1) c3,3 S c3,3 ), that are encountered even in the simplest cases. In all previous approaches, ad hoc technical assumptions with no a priori physical basis were required for these terms.
The origin of theu=0 problem is the absence of information, in general, on a product of distributions that are boundary values of analytic functions from opposite directions, and more generally on the essential support, or singular spectrum, of a product of distributions whose essential supports contain opposite directions. On the other hand, the recent results obtained by Kashiwara-Kawai-Stapp in the framework of hyperfunction theory apply mainly to phase-space factors, whose bubbles are constants times conservation δ-functions rather than actual scattering operators. The present work has basically required the development of new physical and mathematical ideas and methods. In particular, a new general result on the essential support of a product of bounded operators is presented inu=0 situations, under a general regularity property on individual terms. The latter follows in the application from the refined macrocausality condition, in the same time as information on the essential support ofS-matrix kernels.
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Iagolnitzer, D. Theu=0 structure theorem. Commun.Math. Phys. 63, 49–96 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02156129
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