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If all truncated $n$-point functions vanish for $n>2$ (i.e. we are dealing with a so-called generalized free field), microcausality for vacuum expectation values and at the operator level are equivalent. The former, on its turn, follows from Lorentz invariance alone in the case of scalar (but not necessarily free) fields, as shown by Pierre-Denis Methée, ...

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Hamiltonian gauge symmetries usually come up in the context of lattice gauge theory, in which the system is defined on a discrete lattice. Such a Hamiltonian is defined to have a gauge symmetry if it commutes with some extensively-scaling set of local (i.e. finitely-supported) unitary operators $\{ U_i = e^{-i Q_i} \}$. Operators that commute with the ...

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(In my experience this tends to be a rather controversial subject, so I think this answer might start some arguments!) First of all, given a specific action, it is a purely mathematical result whether or not there exists a local transformation that depends on an arbitrary smooth function $\lambda(x)$ on spacetime and leaves the action invariant. The ...

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