CAUSAL PERTURBATION THEORY IN TERMS OF RETARDED PRODUCTS, AND A PROOF OF THE ACTION WARD IDENTITY

DOI10.1142/S0129055X04002266MaRDI QIDQ5705145zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Dütsch, Klaus Fredenhagen

Publication date 8 November 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403213

zbMATH Keywords

Axiomatic approachperturbation theoryrenormalizationrenormalization group evolution of parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

Abstract: In the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory a local construction of interacting fields in terms of retarded products is performed, based on earlier work of Steinmann. In our formalism the entries of the retarded products are local functionals of the off shell classical fields, and we prove that the interacting fields depend only on the action and not on terms in the Lagrangian which are total derivatives, thus providing a proof of Stora's 'Action Ward Identity'. The theory depends on free parameters which flow under the renormalization group. This flow can be derived in our local framework independently of the infrared behavior, as was first established by Hollands and Wald. We explicitly compute non-trivial examples for the renormalization of the interaction and the field.

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