Why Does Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime Make Sense? And What Happens to the Algebra of Observables in the Thermodynamic Limit?

Edward Witten ()
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Chapter Chapter 11 in Dialogues Between Physics and Mathematics, 2022, pp 241-284 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This article aims to explain some of the basic facts about the questions raised in the title, without the technical details that are available in the literature. We provide a gentle introduction to some rather classical results about quantum field theory in curved spacetime and about the thermodynamic limit of quantum statistical mechanics. We also briefly explain that these results have an analog in the large N limit of gauge theory.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17523-7_11

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