On Renormalized Hamiltonian Nets

Abstract

We propose an abstract framework describing energy-renormalized Hamiltonians in terms of local algebras. Within the framework, we examine the positivity improvingness of the semigroup generated by the renormalized Hamiltonian. As examples, we discuss the renormalized Nelson Hamiltonian and the renormalized Nelson Hamiltonian at fixed total momentum. The characteristic features of our approach are as follows: (i) in contrast with the probabilistic approach in the Schrödinger representation, our method works well in the Fock representation and (ii) the method covers the massless case.