The microlocal spectrum condition and Wick polynomials of free fields on curved spacetimes

DOI10.1007/BF02099626zbMATH Open0923.58052arXivgr-qc/9510056OpenAlexW2003470918MaRDI QIDQ1924103FDOQ1924103

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 31 October 1999

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum fields propagating on a curved spacetime are investigated in terms of microlocal analysis. We discuss a condition on the wave front set for the corresponding n-point distributions, called ``microlocal spectrum condition ($mu$SC). On Minkowski space, this condition is satisfied as a consequence of the usual spectrum condition. Based on Radzikowski's determination of the wave front set of the two-point function of a free scalar field, satisfying the Hadamard condition in the Kay and Wald sense, we construct in the second part of this paper all Wick polynomials including the energy-momentum tensor for this field as operator valued distributions on the manifold and prove that they satisfy our microlocal spectrum condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9510056

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic quantum field theorywave front sets\(m\)-point distributionshyperbolic spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microlocal methods and methods of sheaf theory and homological algebra applied to PDEs (35A27) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

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