Even though related questions are discussed here and here, I am still confused about the eigenstates of the field operator of a bosonic field ˆϕ(→x,t=0)|ϕ⟩=ϕ(→x)|ϕ⟩
Does this mean that all states of the QFT are related to a field configuration in space? The states are said to fulfill the completeness relation ∫dϕ(→x)|ϕ⟩⟨ϕ|=1.
The measure here means that we integrate over all field configurations? Or does it mean that we integrate over all values a field can take at position →x? It must be the first case since a state can not already be specified by just the eigenvalue with respect to the field operator at one point, right? This would be in agreement with ⟨ϕa|ϕb⟩=∏→xδ(ϕa(→x)−ϕb(→x)).
So shouldn't one rather write ∏→x∫dϕ(→x)|ϕ⟩⟨ϕ|=1.
How would one take the trace of an operator? trˆO=∫dϕ(→x)⟨ϕ|O|ϕ⟩
or trˆO=∏→x∫dϕ(→x)⟨ϕ|O|ϕ⟩
or even something different?
The formulas I used are from Kapusta "Finite Temperature Field Theory Principles and Applications", p. 12+13.
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