On microlocalisation and the construction of Feynman Propagators for normally hyperbolic operators
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| author | Islam, Onirban Strohmaier, Alexander |
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| contents | This article gives global microlocalisation constructions for normally hyperbolic operators on a vector bundle over a globally hyperbolic spacetime in geometric terms. As an application, this is used to generalise the Duistermaat-Hörmander construction of Feynman propagators, therefore incorporating the most important non-scalar geometric operators. It is shown that for normally hyperbolic operators that are selfadjoint with respect to a hermitian bundle metric, the Feynman propagators can be constructed to satisfy a positivity property that reflects the existence of Hadamard states in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes. We also give a more direct construction of the Feynman propagators for Dirac-type operators on a globally hyperbolic spacetime. Even though the natural bundle metric on spinors is not positive-definite, in this case, we can give a direct microlocal construction of a Feynman propagator that satisfies positivity. |
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| spellingShingle | On microlocalisation and the construction of Feynman Propagators for normally hyperbolic operators Islam, Onirban Strohmaier, Alexander Analysis of PDEs Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry 35S30, 58J40, 81T20 This article gives global microlocalisation constructions for normally hyperbolic operators on a vector bundle over a globally hyperbolic spacetime in geometric terms. As an application, this is used to generalise the Duistermaat-Hörmander construction of Feynman propagators, therefore incorporating the most important non-scalar geometric operators. It is shown that for normally hyperbolic operators that are selfadjoint with respect to a hermitian bundle metric, the Feynman propagators can be constructed to satisfy a positivity property that reflects the existence of Hadamard states in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes. We also give a more direct construction of the Feynman propagators for Dirac-type operators on a globally hyperbolic spacetime. Even though the natural bundle metric on spinors is not positive-definite, in this case, we can give a direct microlocal construction of a Feynman propagator that satisfies positivity. |
| title | On microlocalisation and the construction of Feynman Propagators for normally hyperbolic operators |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry 35S30, 58J40, 81T20 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09767 |