On the mathematical foundations of causal fermion systems in Minkowski space

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00983-5zbMATH Open1461.81150arXiv1909.09229OpenAlexW3108379737MaRDI QIDQ2662003FDOQ2662003

Authors: Marco Oppio 

Publication date: 8 April 2021

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The emergence of the concept of a causal fermion system is revisited and further investigated for the vacuum Dirac equation in Minkowski space. After a brief recap of the Dirac equation and its solution space, in order to allow for the effects of a possibly nonstandard structure of spacetime at the Planck scale, a regularization by a smooth cutoff in momentum space is introduced, and its properties are discussed. Given an ensemble of solutions, we recall the construction of a local correlation function, which realizes spacetime in terms of operators. It is shown in various situations that the local correlation function maps spacetime points to operators of maximal rank and that it is closed and homeomorphic onto its image. It is inferred that the corresponding causal fermion systems are regular and have a smooth manifold structure. The cases considered include a Dirac sea vacuum and systems involving a finite number of particles and antiparticles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09229

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

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