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Relative Cauchy evolution for linear homotopy AQFTs

Mathematical Physics 2022-06-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

This paper develops a concept of relative Cauchy evolution for the class of homotopy algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) that are obtained by canonical commutation relation quantization of Poisson chain complexes. The key element of the construction is a rectification theorem proving that the homotopy time-slice axiom, which is a higher categorical relaxation of the time-slice axiom of AQFT, can be strictified for theories in this class. The general concept is illustrated through a detailed study of the relative Cauchy evolution for the homotopy AQFT associated with linear Yang-Mills theory, for which the usual stress-energy tensor is recovered.

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@article{arxiv.2108.10592,
  title  = {Relative Cauchy evolution for linear homotopy AQFTs},
  author = {Simen Bruinsma and Christopher J. Fewster and Alexander Schenkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10592},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

33 pages. v3: Final version accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics

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