Locally covariant charged fields and background independence

DOI10.1142/S0129055X15500178zbMATH Open1327.81273arXiv1311.7661OpenAlexW3101554346MaRDI QIDQ3449172FDOQ3449172

Jochen Zahn

Publication date: 3 November 2015

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

Abstract: We discuss gauge background independence at the example of the charged Dirac field. We show that a perturbative version of background independence, termed perturbative agreement by Hollands and Wald, can be fulfilled, and discuss some of its consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7661

zbMATH Keywords

background independencequantum field theory on curved spacetimesquantum field theory in external potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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