Analytic dependence is an unnecessary requirement in renormalization of locally covariant QFT

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2618-7MaRDI QIDQ291963zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Khavkine, Valter Moretti

Publication date 10 June 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1302

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theory on curved space-timesrenormalization freedom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: Finite renormalization freedom in locally covariant quantum field theories on curved spacetime is known to be tightly constrained, under certain standard hypotheses, to the same terms as in flat spacetime up to finitely many curvature dependent terms. These hypotheses include, in particular, locality, covariance, scaling, microlocal regularity and continuous and analytic dependence on the metric and coupling parameters. The analytic dependence hypothesis is somewhat unnatural, because it requires that locally covariant observables (which are simultaneously defined on all spacetimes) depend continuously on an arbitrary metric, with the dependence strengthened to analytic on analytic metrics. Moreover the fact that analytic metrics are globally rigid makes the implementation of this requirement at the level of local $\ast$-algebras of observables rather technically cumbersome. We show that the conditions of locality, covariance, scaling and a naturally strengthened microlocal spectral condition, are actually sufficient to constrain the allowed finite renormalizations equally strongly, thus eliminating both the continuity and the somewhat unnatural analyticity hypotheses. The key step in the proof uses the Peetre-Slov'ak theorem on the characterization of (in general non-linear) differential operators by their locality and regularity properties.

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