Dynamical C*-algebras and kinetic perturbations

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-01002-3zbMATH Open1460.81046arXiv2008.02034OpenAlexW3117785186MaRDI QIDQ2662005FDOQ2662005

Authors: Detlev Buchholz, Klaus Fredenhagen 

Publication date: 8 April 2021

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

Abstract: The framework of dynamical C*-algebras for scalar fields in Minkowski space, based on local scattering operators, is extended to theories with locally perturbed kinetic terms. These terms encode information about the underlying spacetime metric, so the causality relations between the scattering operators have to be adjusted accordingly. It is shown that the extended algebra describes scalar quantum fields, propagating in locally deformed Minkowski spaces. Concrete representations of the abstract scattering operators, inducing this motion, are known to exist on Fock space. The proof that these representers also satisfy the generalized causality relations requires, however, novel arguments of a cohomological nature. They imply that Fock space representations of the extended dynamical C*-algebra exist, involving linear as well as kinetic and pointlike quadratic perturbations of the field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02034

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Bergman spaces and Fock spaces (30H20) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Methods of algebraic topology in functional analysis (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) (46M20)

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