Infinite index extensions of local nets and defects

DOI10.1142/S0129055X18500022zbMATH Open1414.81147arXiv1703.03605OpenAlexW3103755253MaRDI QIDQ4603374FDOQ4603374

Authors: Simone Del Vecchio, Luca Giorgetti 

Publication date: 20 February 2018

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

Abstract: Subfactor theory provides a tool to analyze and construct extensions of Quantum Field Theories, once the latter are formulated as local nets of von Neumann algebras. We generalize some of the results of [LR95] to the case of extensions with infinite Jones index. This case naturally arises in physics, the canonical examples are given by global gauge theories with respect to a compact (non-finite) group of internal symmetries. Building on the works of Izumi, Longo, Popa [ILP98] and Fidaleo, Isola [FI99], we consider generalized Q-systems (of intertwiners) for a semidiscrete inclusion of properly infinite von Neumann algebras, which generalize ordinary Q-systems introduced by Longo [Lon94] to the infinite index case. We characterize inclusions which admit generalized Q-systems of intertwiners and define a braided product among the latter, hence we construct examples of QFTs with defects (phase boundaries) of infinite index, extending the family of boundaries in the grasp of [BKLR16].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03605

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryQ-systemssubfactorsHaag-Kastler netsinfinite Jones index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Subfactors and their classification (46L37) Applications of operator algebras to the sciences (47L90)

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