Compositional quantum field theory: An axiomatic presentation

DOI10.1063/5.0166999MaRDI QIDQ6188554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Oeckl

Publication date 7 February 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10385

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Abstract: We introduce Compositional Quantum Field Theory (CQFT) as an axiomatic model of Quantum Field Theory, based on the principles of locality and compositionality. Our model is a refinement of the axioms of General Boundary Quantum Field Theory, and is phrased in terms of correspondences between certain commuting diagrams of gluing identifications between manifolds and corresponding commuting diagrams of state-spaces and linear maps, thus making it amenable to formalization in terms of involutive symmetric monoidal functors and operad algebras. The underlying novel framework for gluing leads to equivariance of CQFT. We study CQFTs in dimension 2 and the algebraic structure they define on open and closed strings. We also consider, as a particular case, the compositional structure of 2-dimensional pure quantum Yang-Mills theory.

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