Stochastic quantization, reflection positivity, and quantum fields

DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1320-ZMaRDI QIDQ888242zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arthur Jaffe

Publication date 5 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2964

zbMATH Keywords

reflection positivitystochastic quantizationstochastic PDEquantum fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Abstract: We investigate stochastic quantization as a method to go from a classical PDE (with stochastic time $lambda$) to a corresponding quantum theory in the limit $lambdaoinfty$. We test the method for a linear PDE satisfied by the free scalar field. We begin by giving some background about the importance of establishing the property of {em reflection positivity} for the limit $lambdaoinfty$. We then prove that the measure determined through stochastic quantization of the free scalar field violates reflection positivity (with respect to reflection of the physical time) for every $lambda<infty$. If a non-linear perturbation of the linear equation is continuous in the perturbation parameter, the same result holds for small perturbations. For this reason, one needs to find a modified procedure for stochastic quantization, in order to use that method to obtain a quantum theory.

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