English

Topological sectors for Weyl-algebra net in the Einstein cylindrical universe

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

This paper is an extended and more detailed version of arXiv:0812.0533. We tackle the problem of constructing explicit examples of topological cocycles of Roberts' net cohomology, as defined abstractly by Brunetti and Ruzzi. We consider the simple case of massive bosonic quantum field theory on the two dimensional Einstein cylinder. After deriving some crucial results of the algebraic framework of quantization, we address the problem of the construction of the topological cocycles. All constructed cocycles lead to unitarily equivalent representations of the fundamental group of the circle (seen as a diffeomorphic image of all possible Cauchy surfaces).

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.4562,
  title  = {Topological sectors for Weyl-algebra net in the Einstein cylindrical universe},
  author = {Lorenzo Franceschini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.4562},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Ph.D. Thesis - University of Trento, Department of Mathematics, 126 pages