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Relativistic systems, like elementary particles, are described by an algebra of observables \( {\mathcal{A}_{obs}} \) which satisfies the causality condition, (4.2), and is stable under the automorphisms α(a, Λ) which describe space time translations and Lorentz transformations (with parameters a, Λ, respectively).
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Strocchi, F. (2008). The Goldstone Theorem for Relativistic Local Fields. In: Symmetry Breaking. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 732. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73593-9_27
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