English

Hadamard states for bosonic quantum field theory on globally hyperbolic spacetimes

Mathematical Physics 2024-06-19 v1 math.MP

Abstract

According to Radzikowski's celebrated results, bisolutions of a wave operator on a globally hyperbolic spacetime are of Hadamard form iff they are given by a linear combination of distinguished parametrices i2(G~aFG~F+G~AG~R)\frac{i}{2}\big(\widetilde{G}_{aF} - \widetilde{G}_{F} + \widetilde{G}_A - \widetilde{G}_R\big) in the sense of Duistermaat-H\"ormander. Inspired by the construction of the corresponding advanced and retarded Green operator GA,GRG_A,G_R as done in B\"ar, Ginoux, Pf\"affle 2007, we construct the remaining two Green operators GF,GaFG_F, G_{aF} locally in terms of Hadamard series. Afterwards, we provide the global construction of i2(G~aFG~F)\frac{i}{2}\big(\widetilde{G}_{aF} - \widetilde{G}_{F}\big), which relies on new techniques like a well-posed Cauchy problem for bisolutions and a patching argument using \v{C}ech cohomology. This leads to global bisolutions of Hadamard form, each of which can be chosen to be a Hadamard two-point-function, i.e. the smooth part can be adapted such that, additionally, the symmetry and the positivity condition are exactly satisfied.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2008.13156,
  title  = {Hadamard states for bosonic quantum field theory on globally hyperbolic spacetimes},
  author = {Max Lewandowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13156},
  year   = {2024}
}