Obstructions to the existence of M{\o}ller maps
Mathematical Physics
2025-11-26 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
M{\o}ller maps are identifications between the observables of a perturbatively interacting physical system and the observables of its underlying free (i.e. non-interacting) system. This work studies and characterizes obstructions to the existence of such identifications. The main results are existence and importantly also non-existence theorems, which in particular imply that M{\o}ller maps do not exist for non-Abelian Chern-Simons and Yang-Mills theories on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. These results are obtained through homological algebra techniques which are of independent interest in the analysis of classical field theories.
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@article{arxiv.2311.00070,
title = {Obstructions to the existence of M{\o}ller maps},
author = {Marco Benini and Alastair Grant-Stuart and Giorgio Musante and Alexander Schenkel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00070},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v4: final version to appear on Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 29 pages