The ongoing impact of modular localization on particle theory

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2014.085zbMATH Open1302.81127arXiv1407.2124OpenAlexW2143963869MaRDI QIDQ401281FDOQ401281

Bert Schroer

Publication date: 26 August 2014

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Modular localization is the concise conceptual formulation of causal localization in the setting of local quantum physics. Unlike QM it does not refer to individual operators but rather to ensembles of observables which share the same localization region, as a result it explains the probabilistic aspects of QFT in terms of the impure KMS nature arising from the local restriction of the pure vacuum. Whereas it played no important role in the perturbation theory of low spin particles, it becomes indispensible for interactions which involve higher spin $sgeq1$ fields, where is leads to the replacement of the operator (BRST) gauge theory setting in Krein space by a new formulation in terms of stringlocal fields in Hilbert space. The main purpose of this paper is to present new results which lead to a rethinking of important issues of the Standard Model concerning massive gauge theories and the Higgs mechanism. We place these new findings into the broader context of ongoing conceptual changes within QFT which already led to new nonperturbative constructions of models of integrable QFTs. It is also pointed out that modular localization does not support ideas coming from string theory, as extra dimensions and Kaluza-Klein dimensional reductions outside quasiclassical approximations. Apart from hologarphic projections on null-surfaces, holograhic relations between QFT in different spacetime dimensions violate the causal completeness property, this includes in particular the Maldacena conjecture. Last not least, modular localization sheds light onto unsolved problems from QFT's distant past since it reveals that the Einstein-Jordan conundrum is really an early harbinger of the Unruh effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2124

File on IPFS (Hint: this is only the Hash - if you get a timeout, this file is not available on our server.)

Recommendations

• New concepts in particle physics from the solution of an old problem
• String-Localized Quantum Fields, Modular Localization, and Gauge Theories
• Modular localization and the holistic structure of causal quantum theory, a historical perspective
• Modular localization and the foundational origin of integrability
• scientific article

zbMATH Keywords

integrable modelshigher spin fieldsmodular localizationstring-localization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebras with symbol structure (47L15) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Cited In (9)

• The role of positivity and causality in interactions involving higher spin
• String-Localized Quantum Fields, Modular Localization, and Gauge Theories
• Helicity decoupling in the massless limit of massive tensor fields
• A Hilbert space setting for interacting higher spin fields and the Higgs issue
• Modular localization and the holistic structure of causal quantum theory, a historical perspective
• New concepts in particle physics from the solution of an old problem
• Stora's fine notion of divergent amplitudes
• On particle phenomenology without particle ontology: How much local is almost local?
• MODULAR LOCALIZATION AND WIGNER PARTICLES

This page was built for publication: The ongoing impact of modular localization on particle theory

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q401281)