Evolution in quantum causal histories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/320MaRDI QIDQ4470738zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eli Hawkins, Fotini Markopoulou, Hanno Sahlmann

Publication date 15 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0302111

zbMATH Keywords

global hyperbolicityobservablesquantum statesWheeler-De Witt approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We provide a precise definition and analysis of quantum causal histories (QCH). A QCH consists of a discrete, locally finite, causal pre-spacetime with matrix algebras encoding the quantum structure at each event. The evolution of quantum states and observables is described by completely positive maps between the algebras at causally related events. We show that this local description of evolution is sufficient and that unitary evolution can be recovered wherever it should actually be expected. This formalism may describe a quantum cosmology without an assumption of global hyperbolicity; it is thus more general than the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. The structure of a QCH is also closely related to quantum information theory and algebraic quantum field theory on a causal set.

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