PCT theorem for the operator product expansion in curved spacetime

DOI10.1007/S00220-003-0991-5zbMATH Open1063.81084arXivgr-qc/0212028OpenAlexW1557013989MaRDI QIDQ1418325FDOQ1418325

Stefan Hollands

Publication date: 19 January 2004

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the operator product expansion for quantum field theories on general analytic 4-dimensional curved spacetimes within an axiomatic framework. We prove under certain general, model-independent assumptions that such an expansion necessarily has to be invariant under a simultaneous reversal of parity, time, and charge (PCT) in the following sense: The coefficients in the expansion of a product of fields on a curved spacetime with a given choice of time and space orientation are equal (modulo complex conjugation) to the coefficients for the product of the corresponding charge conjugate fields on the spacetime with the opposite time and space orientation. We propose that this result should be viewed as a replacement of the usual PCT theorem in Minkowski spacetime, at least in as far as the algebraic structure of the quantum fields at short distances is concerned.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0212028

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic quantum field structureaxiomatic quantum field theorisfield-product expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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