Superselection sectors and general covariance. I

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0147-5zbMATH Open1124.81030arXivgr-qc/0511118OpenAlexW2047478911MaRDI QIDQ883035FDOQ883035

Romeo Brunetti, Giuseppe Ruzzi

Publication date: 31 May 2007

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

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the analysis of charged superselection sectors in the framework of the locally covariant quantum field theories. We shall analize sharply localizable charges, and use net-cohomology of J.E. Roberts as a main tool. We show that to any 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime it is attached a unique, up to equivalence, symmetric tensor $Cr{m}^{*}-$category with conjugates (in case of finite statistics); to any embedding between different spacetimes, the corresponding categories can be embedded, contravariantly, in such a way that all the charged quantum numbers of sectors are preserved. This entails that to any spacetime is associated a unique gauge group, up to isomorphisms, and that to any embedding between two spacetimes there corresponds a group morphism between the related gauge groups. This form of covariance between sectors also brings to light the issue whether local and global sectors are the same. We conjecture this holds that at least on simply connected spacetimes. It is argued that the possible failure might be related to the presence of topological charges. Our analysis seems to describe theories which have a well defined short-distance asymptotic behaviour.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511118

zbMATH Keywords

charged superselection sectorslocally covariant quantum field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Categories, functors in functional analysis (46M15) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

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