Axiomatic quantum field theory in terms of operator product expansions: general framework, and perturbation theory via Hochschild cohomology

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.090zbMATH Open1188.81127arXiv0802.2198MaRDI QIDQ970276FDOQ970276

Stefan Hollands

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new framework for quantum field theory in terms of consistency conditions. The consistency conditions that we consider are "associativity" or "factorization" conditions on the operator product expansion (OPE) of the theory, and are proposed to be the defining property of any quantum field theory. Our framework is presented in the Euclidean setting, and is applicable in principle to any quantum field theory, including non-conformal ones. In our framework, we obtain a characterization of perturbations of a given quantum field theory in terms of a certain cohomology ring of Hochschild-type. We illustrate our framework by the free field, but our constructions are general and apply also to interacting quantum field theories. For such theories, we propose a new scheme to construct the OPE which is based on the use of non-linear quantized field equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2198

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zbMATH Keywords

Hochschild cohomologyoperator product expansionquantum algebraquantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Co)homology of rings and associative algebras (e.g., Hochschild, cyclic, dihedral, etc.) (16E40) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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