Departing from Newton-Wigner-Wightman axioms

2005 ◽  
pp. 47-52
Keyword(s):  
Wightman Axioms

scholarly journals Distributions in CFT. Part II. Minkowski space

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Kravchuk ◽  
Jiaxin Qiao ◽  
Slava Rychkov
Keyword(s):  
Minkowski Space ◽  
Statistical Physics ◽  
Minimal Set ◽  
Local Commutativity ◽  
Classic Result ◽  
Lorentzian Signature ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Wightman Axioms ◽  
Euclidean Signature ◽  
3D Ising Model

Abstract CFTs in Euclidean signature satisfy well-accepted rules, such as the convergent Euclidean OPE. It is nowadays common to assume that CFT correlators exist and have various properties also in Lorentzian signature. Some of these properties may represent extra assumptions, and it is an open question if they hold for familiar statistical-physics CFTs such as the critical 3d Ising model. Here we consider Wightman 4-point functions of scalar primaries in Lorentzian signature. We derive a minimal set of their properties solely from the Euclidean unitary CFT axioms, without using extra assumptions. We establish all Wightman axioms (temperedness, spectral property, local commutativity, clustering), Lorentzian conformal invariance, and distributional convergence of the s-channel Lorentzian OPE. This is done constructively, by analytically continuing the 4-point functions using the s-channel OPE expansion in the radial cross-ratios ρ, $$ \overline{\rho} $$ ρ ¯ . We prove a key fact that |ρ|, $$ \left|\overline{\rho}\right| $$ ρ ¯ < 1 inside the forward tube, and set bounds on how fast |ρ|, $$ \left|\overline{\rho}\right| $$ ρ ¯ may tend to 1 when approaching the Minkowski space.We also provide a guide to the axiomatic QFT literature for the modern CFT audience. We review the Wightman and Osterwalder-Schrader (OS) axioms for Lorentzian and Euclidean QFTs, and the celebrated OS theorem connecting them. We also review a classic result of Mack about the distributional OPE convergence. Some of the classic arguments turn out useful in our setup. Others fall short of our needs due to Lorentzian assumptions (Mack) or unverifiable Euclidean assumptions (OS theorem).

Interacting Fields

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
J. Iliopoulos ◽  
T.N. Tomaras
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Field Theory ◽  
Perturbation Expansion ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Green Functions ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Minkowski Space Time ◽  
Dimensional Minkowski Space ◽  
Feynman Rules ◽  
Wightman Axioms

We present a simple form of the Wightman axioms in a four-dimensional Minkowski space-time which are supposed to define a physically interesting interacting quantum field theory. Two important consequences follow from these axioms. The first is the invariance under CPT which implies, in particular, the equality of masses and lifetimes for particles and anti-particles. The second is the connection between spin and statistics. We give examples of interacting field theories and develop the perturbation expansion for Green functions. We derive the Feynman rules, both in configuration and in momentum space, for some simple interacting theories. The rules are unambiguous and allow, in principle, to compute any Green function at any order in perturbation.

scholarly journals Towards an Explicit Construction of Local Observables in Integrable Quantum Field Theories

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 3889-3926
Author(s):  
Henning Bostelmann ◽  
Daniela Cadamuro
Keyword(s):  
Bound States ◽  
Von Neumann Algebras ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
Explicit Construction ◽  
Local Fields ◽  
Quantum Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Local Observables ◽  
Wightman Axioms

Abstract We present a new viewpoint on the construction of pointlike local fields in integrable models of quantum field theory. As usual, we define these local observables by their form factors; but rather than exhibiting their n-point functions and verifying the Wightman axioms, we aim to establish them as closed operators affiliated with a net of local von Neumann algebras, which is defined indirectly via wedge-local quantities. We also investigate whether these fields have the Reeh–Schlieder property, and in which sense they generate the net of algebras. Our investigation focuses on scalar models without bound states. We establish sufficient criteria for the existence of averaged fields as closable operators, and complete the construction in the specific case of the massive Ising model.

scholarly journals The Wightman axioms for the fermionic Federbush model

1982 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. M. Ruijsenaars
Keyword(s):  
Wightman Axioms
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