Physical Properties of Quantum Field Theory Measures
Abstract
Well known methods of measure theory on infinite dimensional spaces are used to study physical properties of measures relevant to quantum field theory. The difference of typical configurations of free massive scalar field theories with different masses is studied. We apply the same methods to study the Ashtekar-Lewandowski (AL) measure on spaces of connections. We prove that the diffeomorphism group acts ergodically, with respect to the AL measure, on the Ashtekar-Isham space of quantum connections modulo gauge transformations. We also prove that a typical, with respect to the AL measure, quantum connection restricted to a (piecewise analytic) curve leads to a parallel transport discontinuous at every point of the curve.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711139,
title = {Physical Properties of Quantum Field Theory Measures},
author = {J. M. Mourao and T. Thiemann and J. M. Velhinho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711139},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
24 pages, LaTeX, added proof for section 4.2, added references