Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds -- a primer
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Publication:2849263
DOI10.1142/S0217751X13300238zbMATH Open1272.81128arXiv1306.0527MaRDI QIDQ2849263FDOQ2849263
Authors: Marco Benini, Claudio Dappiaggi, Thomas-Paul Hack 
Publication date: 17 September 2013
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Goal of this review is to introduce the algebraic approach to quantum field theory on curved backgrounds. Based on a set of axioms, first written down by Haag and Kastler, this method consists of a two-step procedure. In the first one, a suitable algebra of observables is assigned to a physical system, which is meant to encode all algebraic relations among observables, such as commutation relations, while, in the second step, one must select an algebraic state in order to recover the standard Hilbert space interpretation of a quantum system. As quantum field theories possess infinitely many degrees of freedom, many unitarily inequivalent Hilbert space representations exist and the power of such approach is the ability to treat them all in a coherent manner. We will discuss in detail the algebraic approach for free fields in order to give to the reader all necessary information to deal with the recent literature, which focuses on the applications to specific problems, mostly in cosmology.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0527
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