Hadamard States From Null Infinity

Claudio Dappiaggi ()
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Claudio Dappiaggi: Università degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Fisica & INFN, Sezione di Pavia

A chapter in Quantum Mathematical Physics, 2016, pp 77-99 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Free field theories on a four dimensional, globally hyperbolic spacetime, whose dynamics is ruled by a Green hyperbolic partial differential operator, can be quantized following the algebraic approach. It consists of a two-step procedure: In the first part, one identifies the observables of the underlying physical system collecting them in a ∗-algebra which encodes their relational and structural properties. In the second step, one must identify a quantum state, that is a positive, normalized linear functional on the ∗-algebra out of which one recovers the interpretation proper of quantum mechanical theories via the so-called Gelfand-Naimark-Segal theorem Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) theorem . In between the plethora of possible states, only few of them are considered physically acceptable and they are all characterized by the so-called Hadamard condition, a constraint on the singular structure of the associated two-point function. The goal of this paper is to outline a construction scheme for these states which can be applied whenever the underlying background possesses a null (conformal) boundary. We discuss in particular the examples of a real, massless conformally coupled scalar field and of linearized gravity on a globally hyperbolic and asymptotically flat spacetime.

Keywords: Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds; Algebraic quantum field theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26902-3_5

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