Wedge Domains in Compactly Causal Symmetric Spaces

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAC131MaRDI QIDQ6161409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karl-Hermann Neeb, Gestur Ólafsson

Publication date 27 June 2023

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13288

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

Abstract: Motivated by construction in Algebraic Quantum Field Theory we introduce wedge domains in compactly causal symmetric spaces M=G/H, which includes in particular anti de Sitter space in all dimensions and its coverings. Our wedge domains generalize Rindler wedges in Minkowski space. The key geometric structure we use is the modular flow on M defined by an Euler element in the Lie algebra of G. Our main geometric result asserts that three seemingly different characterizations of these domains coincide: the positivity domain of the modular vector field; the domain specified by a KMS like analytic extension condition for the modular flow; and the domain specified by a polar decomposition in terms of certain cones. In the second half of the article we show that our wedge domains share important properties with wedge domains in Minkowski space. If G is semisimple, there exist unitary representations of G and isotone covariant nets of real subspaces defined for any open subset of M, which assign to connected components of the wedge domains a standard subspace whose modular group corresponds to the modular flow on M. This corresponds to the Bisognano--Wichmann property in Quantum Field Theory. We also show that the set of G-translates of the connected components of the wedge domain provides a geometric realization of the abstract wedge space introduced by the first author and V. Morinelli.

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