Algebraic supersymmetry: a case study

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0177-ZMaRDI QIDQ2456761zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Detlev Buchholz, H. Grundling

Publication date 22 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0604044

zbMATH Keywords

C*-algebrasKMS functionalssupersymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: The treatment of supersymmetry is known to cause difficulties in the C*-algebraic framework of relativistic quantum field theory; several no-go theorems indicate that super-derivations and super-KMS functionals must be quite singular objects in a C*-algebraic setting. In order to clarify the situation, a simple supersymmetric chiral field theory of a free Fermi and Bose field defined on $R$ is analyzed. It is shown that a meaningful C*-version of this model can be based on the tensor product of a CAR-algebra and a novel version of a CCR-algebra, the "resolvent algebra". The elements of this resolvent algebra serve as mollifiers for the super-derivation. Within this model, unbounded (yet locally bounded) graded KMS-functionals are constructed and proven to be supersymmetric. From these KMS-functionals, Chern characters are obtained by generalizing formulae of Kastler and of Jaffe, Lesniewski and Osterwalder. The characters are used to define cyclic cocycles in the sense of Connes' noncommutative geometry which are "locally entire".

Review text

The authors explore how supersymmetric quantum fields can be treated in a C*-algebra setting, avoiding the obstructions found by \textit{A. Kishimoto} and \textit{H. Nakamura} [Commun. Math. Phys. 159, 15--27 (1994; Zbl 0801.46081)] and \textit{D. Buchholz} and \textit{R. Longo} [Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 3, No. 3, 615--626 (1999); addendum ibid. 3, No. 6, 1909--1910 (2000; Zbl 0998.46032)]. A simple supersymmetric chiral field theory of a free Fermi and Bose field defined on \(\mathbb{R}\) is shown to possess a meaningful C*-version based on the tensor product of a CAR-algebra and a novel version of a CCR-algebra, the ``resolvent algebra. The elements of this resolvent algebra serve as mollifiers for the super-derivation. Unbounded (but locally bounded) graded KMS-functionals are constructed and proven to be supersymmetric. From these KMS-functionals generalized Chern characters are obtained and used to define cyclic cocycles in the sense of Connes' noncommutative geometry which are ``locally entire.

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