On-shell extension of distributions

DOI10.1007/S00023-013-0288-YMaRDI QIDQ466938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dorothea Bahns, Michał Wrochna

Publication date 31 October 2014

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5448

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: We consider distributions on $R^{n}setminus0$ which satisfy a given set of partial differential equations and provide criteria for the existence of extensions to $R^n$ that satisfy the same set of equations on $R^n$. We use the results to construct distributions satisfying specific renormalisation conditions in the Epstein and Glaser approach to perturbative quantum field theory. Contrary to other approaches, we provide a unified apporach to treat Lorentz covariance, invariance under global gauge group and almost homogeneity, as well as discrete symmetries. We show that all such symmetries can be recovered by applying a linear map defined for all degrees of divergence. Using similar techniques, we find a relation between on-shell and off-shell time-ordered products involving higher derivatives of the fields.

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