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The observables of a perturbative algebraic quantum field theory form a factorization algebra

Mathematical Physics 2023-11-14 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We demonstrate that perturbative algebraic QFT methods, as developed by Fredenhagen and Rejzner, naturally yields a factorization algebras of observables for a large class of Lorentzian theories. Along the way we carefully articulate cochain-level refinements of multilocal functionals, building upon results about the variational bicomplex, and we lift existing results about Epstein-Glaser renormalization to these multilocal differential forms, results which may be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08175,
  title  = {The observables of a perturbative algebraic quantum field theory form a factorization algebra},
  author = {Owen Gwilliam and Kasia Rejzner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08175},
  year   = {2023}
}

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42 pages