Physics NotePublished
Do confinement and darkness have the same conceptual roots?
Bert Schroer
Publication details
- Authors
- Bert Schroer
- Type
- Physics Note
- Status
- Published
- Publication date
- 18/03/2008
- Description
- Indecomposable positive energy quantum matter comes in 3 forms: one massive and two massless families of which about the so called "infinite spin" family was little known up to recently. Using novel methods which are particularly suited for problems of localization, it was shown that this quantum matter of the third kind cannot be generated by pointlke localized fields but rather needs semiinfinite stringlike generators. Arguing that the field algebras generated by these new objects do not possess any compactly localizable subalgebras, we are led to a situation of purely gravitating matter which cannot be registered in any particle counter i.e. to observational darkness and possibly also inertness. \ A milder form of darkness which only blackouts certain string localized objects but leaves a large observable subalgebra generated by pointlike fields occurs with interacting zero mass finite helicity matter and it is the main aim of this note to emphasize these analogies.
- Year
- 2008
- Linked to a thesis
- No
- Linked to a grant
- No