Locality and general vacua in quantum field theory

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2021.073MaRDI QIDQ2236614zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniele Colosi, Robert Oeckl

Publication date 25 October 2021

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12342

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationquantum field theorysymplectic geometryreflection positivitygeneral boundary formulationFeynman path integralLSZ reduction formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

Abstract: We extend the framework of general boundary quantum field theory (GBQFT) to achieve a fully local description of realistic quantum field theories. This requires the quantization of non-K"ahler polarizations which occur generically on timelike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian spacetimes as has been shown recently. We achieve this in two ways: On the one hand we replace Hilbert space states by observables localized on hypersurfaces, in the spirit of algebraic quantum field theory. On the other hand we apply the GNS construction to twisted star-structures to obtain Hilbert spaces, motivated by the notion of reflection positivity of the Euclidean approach to quantum field theory. As one consequence, the well-known representation of a vacuum state in terms of a sea of particle pairs in the Hilbert space of another vacuum admits a vast generalization to non-K"ahler vacua, particularly relevant on timelike hypersurfaces.

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