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    Spectral theory of a mathematical model in Quantum Field Theory for any spin

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    In this paper we use the formalism of S.Weinberg in order to construct a mathematical model based on the weak decay of hadrons and nuclei. In particular we consider a model which generalizes the weak decay of the nucleus of the cobalt. We associate with this model a Hamiltonian with cutoffs in a Fock space. The Hamiltonian is self-adjoint and has an unique ground state. By using the commutator theory we get a limiting absorption principle from which we deduce that the spectrum of the Hamiltonian is absolutely continuous above the energy of the ground state and below the first threshold.Comment: A subsection revise

    Weak interactions in a background of a uniform magnetic field. A mathematical model for the inverse beta decay.I

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    In this paper we consider a mathematical model for the inverse beta decay in a uniform magnetic field. With this model we associate a Hamiltonian with cutoffs in an appropriate Fock space. No infrared regularization is assumed. The Hamiltonian is selfadjoint and has a ground state. We study its essential spectrum and determine its spectrum. Conditions for uniqueness of ground state are given. The coupling constant is supposed suffciently small.Comment: The proof of theorem 4.4 is not corrected in this preprin

    A mathematical model for the Fermi weak interactions

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    We consider a mathematical model of the Fermi theory of weak interactions as patterned according to the well-known current-current coupling of quantum electrodynamics. We focuss on the example of the decay of the muons into electrons, positrons and neutrinos but other examples are considered in the same way. We prove that the Hamiltonian describing this model has a ground state in the fermionic Fock space for a sufficiently small coupling constant. Furthermore we determine the absolutely continuous spectrum of the Hamiltonian and by commutator estimates we prove that the spectrum is absolutely continuous away from a small neighborhood of the thresholds of the free Hamiltonian. For all these results we do not use any infrared cutoff or infrared regularization even if fermions with zero mass are involved

    On the Infrared Problem for the Dressed Non-Relativistic Electron in a Magnetic Field

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    We consider a non-relativistic electron interacting with a classical magnetic field pointing along the x3x_3-axis and with a quantized electromagnetic field. The system is translation invariant in the x3x_3-direction and we consider the reduced Hamiltonian H(P3)H(P_3) associated with the total momentum P3P_3 along the x3x_3-axis. For a fixed momentum P3P_3 sufficiently small, we prove that H(P3)H(P_3) has a ground state in the Fock representation if and only if E(P3)=0E'(P_3)=0, where P3E(P3)P_3 \mapsto E'(P_3) is the derivative of the map P3E(P3)=infσ(H(P3))P_3 \mapsto E(P_3) = \inf \sigma (H(P_3)). If E(P3)0E'(P_3) \neq 0, we obtain the existence of a ground state in a non-Fock representation. This result holds for sufficiently small values of the coupling constant
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