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Acausal quantum theory for non-Archimedean scalar fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-04-24 v3 Mathematical Physics Functional Analysis math.MP

Abstract

We construct a family of quantum scalar fields over a pp-adic spacetime which satisfy pp-adic analogues of the G\aa rding--Wightman axioms. Most of the axioms can be formulated the same way in both, the Archimedean and non-Archimedean frameworks; however, the axioms depending on the ordering of the background field must be reformulated, reflecting the acausality of pp-adic spacetime. The pp-adic scalar fields satisfy certain pp-adic Klein-Gordon pseudo-differential equations. The second quantization of the solutions of these Klein-Gordon equations corresponds exactly to the scalar fields introduced here.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08613,
  title  = {Acausal quantum theory for non-Archimedean scalar fields},
  author = {M. L. Mendoza-Martínez and J. A. Vallejo and W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08613},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Third version, with some typos corrected. Accepted for publication in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (2019). Includes referee's suggestions

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