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A skeletal model for 2d conformal AQFTs

Mathematical Physics 2022-09-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Category Theory math.MP

Abstract

A simple model for the localization of the category CLoc2\mathbf{CLoc}_2 of oriented and time-oriented globally hyperbolic conformal Lorentzian 22-manifolds at all Cauchy morphisms is constructed. This provides an equivalent description of 22-dimensional conformal algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) satisfying the time-slice axiom in terms of only two algebras, one for the 22-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and one for the flat cylinder, together with a suitable action of two copies of the orientation preserving embeddings of oriented 11-manifolds. The latter result is used to construct adjunctions between the categories of 22-dimensional and chiral conformal AQFTs whose right adjoints formalize and generalize Rehren's chiral observables.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01837,
  title  = {A skeletal model for 2d conformal AQFTs},
  author = {Marco Benini and Luca Giorgetti and Alexander Schenkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01837},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages, final version accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics

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