2 papers
math-ph2026
Why Hadamard states?
Eleanor March
In quantum field theory on curved spacetime, and in locally-covariant quantum field theory, the Hadamard condition is often presented as a necessary condition on 'physically reason…
physics.hist-ph2026
Ceci n'est pas un gluon
India Bhalla-Ladd, Eleanor March, James Owen Weatherall
We discuss and then resolve a tension between how physicists treat gauge bosons and the celebrated "Wu-Yang dictionary", which identifies particle physics terminology with that of…