Nuclearity and thermal states in conformal field theory

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0127-9zbMATH Open1187.81193arXivmath-ph/0603083OpenAlexW3099037524MaRDI QIDQ883030FDOQ883030

Detlev Buchholz, Claudio D'Antoni, Roberto Longo

Publication date: 31 May 2007

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new type of spectral density condition, that we call L^2-nuclearity. One formulation concerns lowest weight unitary representations of SL(2,R) and turns out to be equivalent to the existence of characters. A second formulation concerns inclusions of local observable von Neumann algebras in Quantum Field Theory. We show the two formulations to agree in chiral Conformal QFT and, starting from the trace class condition for the semigroup generated by the conformal Hamiltonian L_0, we infer and naturally estimate the Buchholz-Wichmann nuclearity condition and the (distal) split property. As a corollary, if L_0 is log-elliptic, the Buchholz-Junglas set up is realized and so there exists a beta-KMS state for the translation dynamics on the net of C*-algebras for every inverse temperature beta>0. We include further discussions on higher dimensional spacetimes. In particular, we verify that L^2-nuclearity is satisfied for the scalar, massless Klein-Gordon field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0603083

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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