The extended algebra of observables for Dirac fields and the trace anomaly of their stress-energy tensor

DOI10.1142/S0129055X09003864zbMATH Open1231.81062arXiv0904.0612OpenAlexW1984291984MaRDI QIDQ3402048FDOQ3402048

Authors: Claudio Dappiaggi, Thomas-Paul Hack, Nicola Pinamonti 

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss from scratch the classical structure of Dirac spinors on an arbitrary globally hyperbolic, Lorentzian spacetime, their formulation as a locally covariant quantum field theory, and the associated notion of a Hadamard state. Eventually, we develop the notion of Wick polynomials for spinor fields, and we employ the latter to construct a covariantly conserved stress-energy tensor suited for back-reaction computations. We shall explicitly calculate its trace anomaly in particular.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0612

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal anomalyspinor fieldsquantum field theory over curved backgrounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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