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Nets of standard subspaces on Lie groups

Mathematical Physics 2020-06-24 v2 math.MP Operator Algebras Representation Theory

Abstract

Let G be a Lie group with Lie algebra g\mathfrak{g}, hgh \in \frak{g} an element for which the derivation ad(h) defines a 3-grading of g\mathfrak{g} and τG\tau_G an involutive automorphism of G inducing on g\mathfrak{g} the involution eπiad(h)e^{\pi i ad(h)}. We consider antiunitary representations UU of the Lie group Gτ=G{e,τG}G_\tau = G \rtimes \{e,\tau_G\} for which the positive cone CU={xg:iU(x)0}C_U = \{ x \in \mathfrak{g} : -i \partial U(x) \geq 0\} and hh span g\mathfrak{g}. To a real subspace E of distribution vectors invariant under exp(Rh)exp(\mathbb{R} h) and an open subset OGO \subseteq G, we associate the real subspace HE(O)HH_E(O) \subseteq H, generated by the subspaces U(φ)EU(\varphi)E, where φCc(O,R)\varphi \in C^\infty_c(O,\mathbb{R}) is a real-valued test function on OO. Then HE(O)H_E(O) is dense in HE(G)H_E(G) for every non-empty open subset OGO \subseteq G (Reeh--Schlider property). For the real standard subspace VHV \subseteq H, for which JV=U(τG)J_V = U(\tau_G) is the modular conjugation and ΔVit/2π=U(expth)\Delta_V^{-it/2\pi} = U(\exp th) is the modular group, we obtain sufficient conditions to be of the form HE(S)H_E(S) for an open subsemigroup SGS \subseteq G. If g\mathfrak{g} is semisimple with simple hermitian ideals of tube type, we verify these criteria and obtain nets of cyclic subspacs HE(O)H_E(O), OGO \subseteq G, satisfying the Bisognano--Wichman property for some domains O. Our construction also yields such nets on simple Jordan space-times and compactly causal symmetric spaces of Cayley type. By second quantization, these nets lead to free quantum fields in the sense of Haag--Kastler on causal homogeneous spaces whose groups are generated by modular groups and conjugations.

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@article{arxiv.2006.09832,
  title  = {Nets of standard subspaces on Lie groups},
  author = {Karl-Hermann Neeb and Gestur Olafsson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09832},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

50 pages; error in Thm. 5.3 has been corrected

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