Local causal structures, Hadamard states and the principle of local covariance in quantum field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-011-1235-8zbMATH Open1233.81033arXiv1001.0858OpenAlexW3102258696MaRDI QIDQ543363FDOQ543363

Authors: Claudio Dappiaggi, Martin Porrmann, Nicola Pinamonti 

Publication date: 17 June 2011

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

Abstract: In the framework of the algebraic formulation, we discuss and analyse some new features of the local structure of a real scalar quantum field theory in a strongly causal spacetime. In particular we use the properties of the exponential map to set up a local version of a bulk-to-boundary correspondence. The bulk is a suitable subset of a geodesic neighbourhood of any but fixed point p of the underlying background, while the boundary is a part of the future light cone having p as its own tip. In this regime, we provide a novel notion for the extended *-algebra of Wick polynomials on the said cone and, on the one hand, we prove that it contains the information of the bulk counterpart via an injective *-homomorphism while, on the other hand, we associate to it a distinguished state whose pull-back in the bulk is of Hadamard form. The main advantage of this point of view arises if one uses the universal properties of the exponential map and of the light cone in order to show that, for any two given backgrounds M and M' and for any two subsets of geodesic neighbourhoods of two arbitrary points, it is possible to engineer the above procedure such that the boundary extended algebras are related via a restriction homomorphism. This allows for the pull-back of boundary states in both spacetimes and, thus, to set up a machinery which permits the comparison of expectation values of local field observables in M and M'.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0858

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar fieldlocal covarianceHadamard formholography principlequantum field theory on curved backgrounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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