English Explanatory Dictionary

Wightman axiom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a number of axioms representing an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory.

Word forms

Wightman axiom Wightman axioms

Etymology

Named after American physicist Arthur Wightman, who formulated them in the early 1950s.

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