Textbooks on these objects include a three-volume treatise by Steven Weinberg and a book by Michael Peskin and Daniel Schroeder.
Due to relativistic causality, two of these objects evaluated at a spacelike separation must always commute. The Wightman axioms provide a rigorous foundation for the theory of these objects. Operators representing these objects are applied to the vacuum to create quantum states in second quantization. Textbooks on these objects include a three-volume treatise by Steven Weinberg and a book by Michael Peskin and Daniel Schroeder. A conformal theory of these objects is dual to string theory in the AdS/CFT correspondence, and as with strings, excitations of them are interpreted as particles. One of them has a vacuum expectation value of 246 GeV ("giga-electron-volts"), acts on particles in a way often analogized to molasses, and mediates the generation of mass by the Higgs boson. For 10 points, name these objects that permeate all space, whose namesake theory of quantum physics is called QFT.
Due to relativistic causality, two of these objects evaluated at a spacelike separation must always commute.
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