Quantum field theory with a fundamental length: a general mathematical framework

DOI10.1063/1.3269595zbMATH Open1373.81272arXiv0912.0595OpenAlexW2025002147MaRDI QIDQ3583765FDOQ3583765

Authors: M. A. Solov'ev 

Publication date: 17 August 2010

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

Abstract: We review and develop a mathematical framework for nonlocal quantum field theory (QFT) with a fundamental length. As an instructive example, we reexamine the normal ordered Gaussian function of a free field and find the primitive analyticity domain of its n-point vacuum expectation values. This domain is smaller than the usual future tube of local QFT, but we prove that in difference variables, it has the same structure of a tube whose base is the (n-1)-fold product of a Lorentz invariant region. It follows that this model satisfies Wightman-type axioms with an exponential high-energy bound which does not depend on n, contrary to the claims in the literature. In our setting, the Wightman generalized functions are defined on test functions analytic in the complex l-neighborhood of the real space, where l is an n-independent constant playing the role of a fundamental length, and the causality condition is formulated with the use of an analogous function space associated with the light cone. In contrast to the scheme proposed by Bruning and Nagamachi [J. Math. Phys. 45 (2004) 2199] in terms of ultra-hyperfunctions, the presented theory obviously becomes local as l tends to zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0595

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz invariancelight conesWightman field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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