Clifford geometric parameterization of inequivalent vacua

DOI10.1002/MMA.247zbMATH Open0990.15017arXivhep-th/9710047OpenAlexW3098416616MaRDI QIDQ2746983FDOQ2746983

Authors: Bertfried Fauser 

Publication date: 25 July 2002

Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a geometric method to parameterize inequivalent vacua by dynamical data. Introducing quantum Clifford algebras with arbitrary bilinear forms we distinguish isomorphic algebras --as Clifford algebras-- by different filtrations resp. induced gradings. The idea of a vacuum is introduced as the unique algebraic projection on the base field embedded in the Clifford algebra, which is however equivalent to the term vacuum in axiomatic quantum field theory and the GNS construction in C^*-algebras. This approach is shown to be equivalent to the usual picture which fixes one product but employs a variety of GNS states. The most striking novelty of the geometric approach is the fact that dynamical data fix uniquely the vacuum and that positivity is not required. The usual concept of a statistical quantum state can be generalized to geometric meaningful but non-statistical, non-definite, situations. Furthermore, an algebraization of states takes place. An application to physics is provided by an U(2)-symmetry producing a gap-equation which governs a phase transition. The parameterization of all vacua is explicitly calculated from propagator matrix elements. A discussion of the relation to BCS theory and Bogoliubov-Valatin transformations is given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9710047

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionvacuum\(C^*\)-algebrasbilinear formsClifford algebrasBCS theorystate spaceaxiomatic quantum field theoryGNS states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

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