CONSERVATION OF THE STRESS TENSOR IN PERTURBATIVE INTERACTING QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACETIMES

DOI10.1142/S0129055X05002340zbMATH Open1078.81062arXivgr-qc/0404074MaRDI QIDQ5313446FDOQ5313446

Authors: Stefan Hollands, Robert M. Wald 

Publication date: 1 September 2005

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

Abstract: We propose additional conditions (beyond those considered in our previous papers) that should be imposed on Wick products and time-ordered products of a free quantum scalar field in curved spacetime. These conditions arise from a simple ``Principle of Perturbative Agreement: For interaction Lagrangians $L_1$ that are such that the interacting field theory can be constructed exactly--as occurs when $L_1$ is a ``pure divergence or when $L_1$ is at most quadratic in the field and contains no more than two derivatives--then time-ordered products must be defined so that the perturbative solution for interacting fields obtained from the Bogoliubov formula agrees with the exact solution. The conditions derived from this principle include a version of the Leibniz rule (or ``action Ward identity) and a condition on time-ordered products that contain a factor of the free field $phi$ or the free stress-energy tensor $T_{ab}$. The main results of our paper are (1) a proof that in spacetime dimensions greater than 2, our new conditions can be consistently imposed in addition to our previously considered conditions and (2) a proof that, if they are imposed, then for {em any} polynomial interaction Lagrangian $L_1$ (with no restriction on the number of derivatives appearing in $L_1$), the stress-energy tensor $Thet{a}_{ab}$ of the interacting theory will be conserved. Our work thereby establishes (in the context of perturbation theory) the conservation of stress-energy for an arbitrary interacting scalar field in curved spacetimes of dimension greater than 2. Our approach requires us to view time-ordered products as maps taking classical field expressions into the quantum field algebra rather than as maps taking Wick polynomials of the quantum field into the quantum field algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404074

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zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryrenormalizationstress tensorquantum field theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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