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We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for Euclidean Green's functions to define a unique Wightman field theory.
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Supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, contract AF 44620-70-C-0030.
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Osterwalder, K., Schrader, R. Axioms for Euclidean Green's functions. Commun.Math. Phys. 31, 83–112 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01645738
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