Asymptotic completeness, global existence and the infrared problem for the Maxwell-Dirac equations (Q4339905)

This monograph shows that the nonlinear Lie algebra representation provided by the covariant Maxwell-Dirac equations is integrable to a global nonlinear representation \(U\) of the Poincaré group \(P_0\) on a differentiable manifold \(U_\infty\) of small initial conditions for the Maxwell-Dirac equations. In particular, this work solves the Cauchy problem for the Maxwell-Dirac equations by showing the existence of global solutions for initial data in \(U_\infty\) at time \(t=0\). The existence and asymptotic completeness of modified wave operators \(\Omega_+\) and \(\Omega\) is also proved. The monograph concludes with a cohomological interpretation of the results of the work in the spirit of nonlinear representation theory and its connection with the infrared tail of the electron. The account is comprehensive and rigorous in its exposition of this aspect of quantum electrodynamics, and it shows how results of this type can a priori be of interest for quantum electrodynamics, especially in the infrared regime and when combined with the deformation-quantization approach. In particular, the work shows that also in the classical case infrared divergencies are obtained as a result of requiring free asymptotic fields.