From Green function to quantum field

DOI10.1142/S0219887817400072MaRDI QIDQ5363349zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Rafael D. Sorkin

Publication date 5 October 2017

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00610

zbMATH Keywords

entropy of Wightman functionGaussian fieldground-state conditionPeierls bracketpurity criterionS-J vacuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Abstract: A pedagogical introduction to the theory of a gaussian scalar field which shows firstly, how the whole theory is encapsulated in the Wightman function $W(x,y)=langlephi(x)phi(y)angle$ regarded abstractly as a two-index tensor on the vector space of (spacetime) field configurations, and secondly how one can arrive at $W(x,y)$ starting from nothing but the retarded Green function $G(x,y)$. Conceiving the theory in this manner seems well suited to curved spacetimes and to causal sets. It makes it possible to provide a general spacetime region with a distinguished "vacuum" or "ground state", and to recognize some interesting formal relationships, including a general condition on $W(x,y)$ expressing zero-entropy or "purity".

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