The phase of the scattering operator from the geometry of certain infinite-dimensional groups

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0714-1MaRDI QIDQ471599zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jouko Mickelsson

Publication date 17 November 2014

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4340

zbMATH Keywords

phaseS-matrixDirac fermionexternal field problemrestricted linear grouprestricted unitary grouptime evolution operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: We revisit the computation of the phase of the Dirac fermion scattering operator in external gauge fields. The computation is through a parallel transport along the path of time evolution operators. The novelty of the present paper compared with the earlier geometric approach by Langmann and Mickelsson, [LM], is that we can avoid the somewhat arbitrary choice in the regularization of the time evolution for intermediate times using a natural choice of the connection form on the space of appropriate unitary operators.

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