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This letter serves as the generalization of the work 2505.16436, where we investigated the quantum field theory in Klein space which has two time directions. We extend studies to the general spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{n,d-n}\,(n,d-n\geq2)$ in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Bin Chen , Zezhou Hu , Xin-Cheng Mao

The concept of a particle is ambiguous in quantum field theory. It is generally agreed that particles depend not only on spacetime, but also on coordinates used to parametrise spacetime points. One of us has in contrast proposed a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 V. A. Emelyanov , D. Robertz

The standard formulation of quantum theory assumes a predefined notion of time. This is a major obstacle in the search for a quantum theory of gravity, where the causal structure of space-time is expected to be dynamical and fundamentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Ognyan Oreshkov , Nicolas J. Cerf

The representation of measurements by positive operator valued measures and the description of the most general state transformations by means of completely positive maps are two basic concepts of quantum information theory. These concepts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel R. Terno

The space of continuous states of perturbative interacting quantum field theories in globally hyperbolic curved spacetimes is determined. Following Brunetti and Fredenhagen, we first define an abstract algebra of observables which contains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefan Hollands , Weihua Ruan

A spinless covariant field $\phi$ on Minkowski spacetime $\M^{d+1}$ obeys the relation $U(a,\Lambda)\phi(x)U(a,\Lambda)^{-1}=\phi(\Lambda x+a)$ where $(a,\Lambda)$ is an element of the Poincar\'e group $\Pg$ and $U:(a,\Lambda)\to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-04 A. P. Balachandran , A. Ibort , G. Marmo , M. Martone

In the present work we review the twisted field construction of quantum field theory on noncommutative spacetimes based on twisted Poincar\'e invariance. We present the latest development in the field, in particular the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-22 Aiyalam P. Balachandran , Alberto Ibort , Giuseppe Marmo , Mario Martone

The Coleman-Mandula (CM) theorem states that the Poincar\'e and internal symmetries of a Minkowski spacetime quantum field theory cannot combine nontrivially in an extended symmetry group. We establish an analogous result for quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Christopher J. Fewster

In this paper, we study implications of the geometrical nature of space- time for some of the basic tenets of quantum mechanics. That is, we study two different implications of the principle of general covariance; first we quantize a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-16 Johan Noldus

We provide a detailed analysis of the classical and quantized theory of a multiplet of inhomogeneous Klein-Gordon fields, which couple to the spacetime metric and also to an external source term; thus the solutions form an affine space.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-24 Christopher J. Fewster , Alexander Schenkel

The recent construction and analysis of deformations of quantum field theories by warped convolutions is extended to a class of curved spacetimes. These spacetimes carry a family of wedge-like regions which share the essential causal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 Claudio Dappiaggi , Gandalf Lechner , Eric Morfa-Morales

It is seen that issues of unitarity raised by the evolution of the wave function in curved spacetime can be resolved by describing the evolution of quantum states in Minkowski tangent space. The treatment adheres closely to the orthodox…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-15 Charles Francis

The connection between spin and statistics is examined in the context of locally covariant quantum field theory. A generalization is proposed in which locally covariant theories are defined as functors from a category of framed spacetimes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Christopher J. Fewster

The mathematical formalism for linear quantum field theory on curved spacetime depends in an essential way on the assumption of global hyperbolicity. Physically, what lie at the foundation of any formalism for quantization in curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Ulvi Yurtsever

In recent years the idea that not only the configuration space of particles, i.e. spacetime, but also the corresponding momentum space may have nontrivial geometry has attracted significant attention, especially in the context of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-28 Jakub Mielczarek , Tomasz Trzesniewski

The Entropic Dynamics reconstruction of quantum mechanics is extended to quantum field theory in curved space-time. The Entropic Dynamics framework, which derives quantum theory as an application of the method of maximum entropy, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Selman Ipek , Mohammad Abedi , Ariel Caticha

This monograph provides a largely self--contained and broadly accessible exposition of two cosmological applications of algebraic quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime: a fundamental analysis of the cosmological evolution according…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-08 Thomas-Paul Hack

A natural mapping of paths in a curved space onto the paths in the corresponding (tangent) flat space may be used to reduce the curved-space-time path integral to the flat-space-time path integral. The dynamics of the particle in a curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Michael B. Mensky

Axiomatic quantum field theory (QFT) provides a rigorous mathematical foundation for QFT, and it is the basis for proving some important general results, such as the well-known spin-statistics theorem. Free-field QFT meets the axioms of…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Ed Seidewitz

This paper gives a representation of the most general positive operator valued measure in Minkowski space-time, covariant with respect to the Poincare' group. It provides the correct mathematical description of the space-time coordinates of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Toller