Relating nets and factorization algebras of observables: free field theories
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Abstract: In this paper we relate two mathematical frameworks that make perturbative quantum field theory rigorous: perturbative algebraic quantum field theory (pAQFT) and the factorization algebras framework developed by Costello and Gwilliam. To make the comparison as explicit as possible, we use the free scalar field as our running example, while giving proofs that apply to any field theory whose equations of motion are Green-hyperbolic (which includes, for instance, free fermions). The main claim is that for such free theories, there is a natural transformation intertwining the two constructions. In fact, both approaches encode equivalent information if one assumes the time-slice axiom. The key technical ingredient is to use time-ordered products as an intermediate step between a net of associative algebras and a factorization algebra.
The paper brings a systematic comparative analysis of two important frameworks dealing with rigorous approaches of perturbative quantum field theory, namely, the perturbative algebraic quantum field theory and the factorization algebras framework developed by Costello and Gwilliam. It presents a formal well performed investigation showing the existence of an interconnection between the two aforementioned formalisms. The analysis has a precise method, starting raising agreements as well as differences between them with a special eye to the observable structure arising in both cases. The presented comparison of the two formalisms is, in my opinion, more than a comparative analysis, it is an important landmark building a truly bridge between them.
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