A skeletal model for 2d conformal AQFTs

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04428-4arXiv2111.01837MaRDI QIDQ6382000FDOQ6382000

Luca Giorgetti, Alexander Schenkel, Marco Benini

Publication date: 2 November 2021

Abstract: A simple model for the localization of the category $mathbf{CLoc}_2$ of oriented and time-oriented globally hyperbolic conformal Lorentzian $2$-manifolds at all Cauchy morphisms is constructed. This provides an equivalent description of $2$-dimensional conformal algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) satisfying the time-slice axiom in terms of only two algebras, one for the $2$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and one for the flat cylinder, together with a suitable action of two copies of the orientation preserving embeddings of oriented $1$-manifolds. The latter result is used to construct adjunctions between the categories of $2$-dimensional and chiral conformal AQFTs whose right adjoints formalize and generalize Rehren's chiral observables.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Boundary value and inverse problems for harmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B20) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

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