Gauge field theories and propagators in curved space-time

DOI10.1142/S0219887821300014arXiv2101.07325OpenAlexW3106954159MaRDI QIDQ6124445FDOQ6124445

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Publication date: 27 March 2024

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper DeWitt's formalism for field theories is presented; it provides a framework in which the quantization of fields possessing infinite dimensional invariance groups may be carried out in a manifestly covariant (non-Hamiltonian) fashion, even in curved space-time. Another important virtue of DeWitt's approach is that it emphasizes the common features of apparently very different theories such as Yang-Mills theories and General Relativity; moreover, it makes it possible to classify all gauge theories in three categories characterized in a purely geometrical way, i.e., by the algebra which the generators of the gauge group obey; the geometry of such theories is the fundamental reason underlying the emergence of ghost fields in the corresponding quantum theories, too. These "tricky extra particles", as Feynman called them in 1964, contribute to a physical observable such as the stress-energy tensor, which can be expressed in terms of Feynman's Green function itself. Therefore, an entire section is devoted to the study of the Green functions of the neutron scalar meson: in flat space-time, the choice of a particular Green's function is the choice of an integration contour in the "momentum" space; in curved space-time the momentum space is no longer available, and the definition of the different Green functions requires a careful discussion itself. After the necessary introduction of bitensors, world function and parallel displacement tensor, an expansion for the Feynman propagator in curved space-time is obtained. Most calculations are explicitly shown.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07325

zbMATH Keywords

action functionalGreen's functionscurved space-timegauge field theoriesfunctional integrationcovariant quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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