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QFT, antimatter, and symmetry. (English) Zbl 1228.81257

Summary: A systematic analysis is made of the relations between the symmetries of a classical field and the symmetries of the one-particle quantum system that results from quantizing that field in regimes where interactions are weak. The results are applied to gain a greater insight into the phenomenon of antimatter.

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81T99 Quantum field theory; related classical field theories
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