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Wick rotation for quantum field theories on degenerate Moyal space(-time)

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-11-30 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Operator Algebras Quantum Algebra

Abstract

In this paper the connection between quantum field theories on flat noncommutative space(-times) in Euclidean and Lorentzian signature is studied for the case that time is still commutative. By making use of the algebraic framework of quantum field theory and an analytic continuation of the symmetry groups which are compatible with the structure of Moyal space, a general correspondence between field theories on Euclidean space satisfying a time zero condition and quantum field theories on Moyal Minkowski space is presented ("Wick rotation"). It is then shown that field theories transferred to Moyal space(-time) by Rieffel deformation and warped convolution fit into this framework, and that the processes of Wick rotation and deformation commute.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6856,
  title  = {Wick rotation for quantum field theories on degenerate Moyal space(-time)},
  author = {Harald Grosse and Gandalf Lechner and Thomas Ludwig and Rainer Verch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6856},
  year   = {2011}
}

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29 pages