String chopping and time-ordered products of linear string-localized quantum fields

DOI10.1007/S11040-017-9258-9MaRDI QIDQ1664410zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucas T. Cardoso, Jens Mund, Joseph C. Várilly

Publication date 27 August 2018

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03429

zbMATH Keywords

Epstein-Glaser perturbative constructionlocalityrelativistic quantum field theorytime-ordered products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15)

Abstract: For a renormalizability proof of perturbative models in the Epstein--Glaser scheme with string-localized quantum fields, one needs to know what freedom one has in the definition of time-ordered products of the interaction Lagrangian. This paper provides a first step in that direction. The basic issue is the presence of an open set of $n$-tuples of strings which cannot be chronologically ordered. We resolve it by showing that almost all such string configurations can be dissected into finitely many pieces which can indeed be chronologically ordered. This fixes the time-ordered products of linear field factors outside a nullset of string configurations. (The extension across the nullset, as well as the definition of time-ordered products of Wick monomials, will be discussed elsewhere.)

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