The Lieb-Robinson condition and the Fr\'echet topology

Abstract

We define various notions of locality for *-automorphisms of the algebra of observables for an infinitely extended quantum spin system and study their relationship. In particular, we show that the ubiquitous characterization which arises from the Lieb-Robinson bound implies but is not equivalent to continuity with respect to the natural Fr\'echet topology of almost local observables, which is a non-commutative analog of the Schwartz space.