Abelian duality on globally hyperbolic spacetimes

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2669-9zbMATH Open1358.83008arXiv1511.00316OpenAlexW3106142143MaRDI QIDQ507281FDOQ507281

Authors: Christian Becker, Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel, Richard J. Szabo 

Publication date: 3 February 2017

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

Abstract: We study generalized electric/magnetic duality in Abelian gauge theory by combining techniques from locally covariant quantum field theory and Cheeger-Simons differential cohomology on the category of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. Our approach generalizes previous treatments using the Hamiltonian formalism in a manifestly covariant way and without the assumption of compact Cauchy surfaces. We construct semi-classical configuration spaces and corresponding presymplectic Abelian groups of observables, which are quantized by the CCR-functor to the category of $C^{\ast }$-algebras. We demonstrate explicitly how duality is implemented as a natural isomorphism between quantum field theories. We apply this formalism to develop a fully covariant quantum theory of self-dual fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00316

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryCauchy surfacesAbelian dualityCCR-functorCheeger-Simons differential cohomologyelectric/magnetic dualityglobally hyperbolic spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Generalized (extraordinary) homology and cohomology theories in algebraic topology (55N20) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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