Involutive categories, colored \ast-operads and quantum field theory

zbMATH Open1406.18005arXiv1802.09555MaRDI QIDQ4621346FDOQ4621346

Lukas Woike, Alexander Schenkel, Marco Benini

Publication date: 12 February 2019

Abstract: Involutive category theory provides a flexible framework to describe involutive structures on algebraic objects, such as anti-linear involutions on complex vector spaces. Motivated by the prominent role of involutions in quantum (field) theory, we develop the involutive analogs of colored operads and their algebras, named colored $ast$-operads and $ast$-algebras. Central to the definition of colored $ast$-operads is the involutive monoidal category of symmetric sequences, which we obtain from a general product-exponential $2$-adjunction whose right adjoint forms involutive functor categories. For $ast$-algebras over $ast$-operads we obtain involutive analogs of the usual change of color and operad adjunctions. As an application, we turn the colored operads for algebraic quantum field theory into colored $ast$-operads. The simplest instance is the associative $ast$-operad, whose $ast$-algebras are unital and associative $ast$-algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09555

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zbMATH Keywords

algebraic quantum field theory\(\ast\)-algebrascolored operads\(\ast\)-monoidsinvolutive categoriesinvolutive monoidal categories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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