The universal C^*-algebra of the electromagnetic field. II. Topological charges and spacelike linear fields. Dedicated to Karl-Henning Rehren on the occasion of his 60th birthday

DOI10.1007/S11005-016-0931-XMaRDI QIDQ528283zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Detlev Buchholz, Fabio Ciolli, Giuseppe Ruzzi, Ezio Vasselli

Publication date 12 May 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03302

zbMATH Keywords

topological chargeselectromagnetic fieldnon-linear field operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry (14F40) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

Abstract: Conditions for the appearance of topological charges are studied in the framework of the universal C*-algebra of the electromagnetic field, which is represented in any theory describing electromagnetism. It is shown that non-trivial topological charges, described by pairs of fields localised in certain topologically non-trivial spacelike separated regions, can appear in regular representations of the algebra only if the fields depend non-linearly on the mollifying test functions. On the other hand, examples of regular vacuum representations with non-trivial topological charges are constructed, where the underlying field still satisfies a weakened form of "spacelike linearity". Such representations also appear in the presence of electric currents. The status of topological charges in theories with several types of electromagnetic fields, which appear in the short distance (scaling) limit of asymptotically free non-abelian gauge theories, is also briefly discussed.

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