Gauss' law and string-localized quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2020)001zbMATH Open1434.83150arXiv1906.09596MaRDI QIDQ2185233FDOQ2185233

Authors: Jens Mund, Karl-Henning Rehren, Bert Schroer 

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The quantum Gauss Law as an interacting field equation is a prominent feature of QED with eminent impact on its algebraic and superselection structure. It forces charged particles to be accompanied by "photon clouds" that cannot be realized in the Fock space, and prevents them from having a sharp mass. Because it entails the possibility of "measurement of charges at a distance", it is well-known to be in conflict with locality of charged fields in a Hilbert space. We show how a new approach to QED advocated by the authors, that avoids indefinite metric and ghosts, can secure causality and achieve Gauss' Law along with all its nontrivial consequences. We explain why this is not at variance with recent results in a paper by Buchholz et al.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09596

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetryglobal symmetriesspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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