DIFFEOMORPHISM GROUPS AND CURRENT ALGEBRAS: CONFIGURATION SPACE ANALYSIS IN QUANTUM THEORY (Q4940901)

The authors develop the ideas (in the previous works by several authors) related to constructing non-relativistic quantum field models via current algebra representations. Their approach is as follows: Consider a space \(\Gamma\) of all infinite configurations in \(\mathbb{R}^d\). Then identify the natural differential geometry on \(\Gamma\) so that the corresponding Dirichlet operator associated with a Poisson measure on \(\Gamma\) (regarded as the volume form) is the free Hamiltonian, and further a representation for the current algebra is obtained by the geometrical structure. In this realization interactions can be described as potentials on the Poisson space, and it provides two classical strategies (the Hamiltonian and Euclidean strategy) to construct interacting models of non-relativistic quantum field theory. Both approaches and the relation between them are discussed. In particular the cut-off Hamiltonian becomes again a Dirichlet operator but w.r.t. a new one so called vacume measure. They also discuss a direct construction of interacting models starting directly from suitably chosen vacume measures, based on the ideas closely related to the well-known canonical field approach. The vacume measures turn out to be Ruelle type measures on \(\Gamma\), the corresponding Hamiltonians are Dirichlet operators, and the currents are infinitesimal generators of Gelfand-Vilenkin type representation of the group of diffeomorphisms on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) with compact support. The contents of this paper consists of both parts that they have realized and that they propose as future work.