Examples of reflection positive field theories

DOI10.1142/S0219887818500226zbMATH Open1382.81130arXiv1703.07735OpenAlexW3105474632MaRDI QIDQ4602871FDOQ4602871

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Publication date: 7 February 2018

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The requirement of reflection positivity(RP) for Euclidean field theories is considered. This is done for the cases of a scalar field, a higher derivative scalar field theory and the scalar field theory defined on a non-integer dimensional space(NIDS). It is shown that regarding RP, the analytical structure of the corresponding Schwinger functions plays an important role. For the higher derivative scalar field theory RP does not hold. However for the scalar field theory on a NIDS, RP holds in a certain range of dimensions where the corresponding Minkowskian field is defined on a Hilbert space with a positive definite scalar product that provides a unitary representation of the Poincar'e group. In addition, and motivated by the last example, it is shown that, under certain conditions, one can construct non-local reflection positive Euclidean field theories starting from the corrected two point functions of interacting local field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07735

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zbMATH Keywords

reflection positivitynon-integer dimensional spacenon-local field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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