Homotopical Quantum Field Theory

DOI10.1142/11626zbMATH Open1487.81003arXiv1802.08101OpenAlexW2788348660MaRDI QIDQ5204842FDOQ5204842

Donald Yau

Publication date: 5 December 2019

Abstract: Algebraic quantum field theory and prefactorization algebra are two mathematical approaches to quantum field theory. In this monograph, using a new coend definition of the Boardman-Vogt construction of a colored operad, we define homotopy algebraic quantum field theories and homotopy prefactorization algebras and investigate their homotopy coherent structures. Homotopy coherent diagrams, homotopy inverses, A-infinity-algebras, E-infinity-algebras, and E-infinity-modules arise naturally in this context. In particular, each homotopy algebraic quantum field theory has the structure of a homotopy coherent diagram of A-infinity-algebras and satisfies a homotopy coherent version of the causality axiom. When the time-slice axiom is defined for algebraic quantum field theory, a homotopy coherent version of the time-slice axiom is satisfied by each homotopy algebraic quantum field theory. Over each topological space, every homotopy prefactorization algebra has the structure of a homotopy coherent diagram of E-infinity-modules over an E-infinity-algebra. To compare the two approaches, we construct a comparison morphism from the colored operad for (homotopy) prefactorization algebras to the colored operad for (homotopy) algebraic quantum field theories and study the induced adjunctions on algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08101

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic quantum field theorycolored operadhomotopical quantum field theoryprefactorization algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01) Monoidal categories and operads (18M99)

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