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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2010

    Tim van Beek has graced us with these: Haag-Kastler axioms.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2010

    Nice.

    I edited a bit and added a bit.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011

    With Todd Trimble I was discussing by email the motivation and physical meaning of the Haag-Kastler axioms. This is clearly something that should go into the nnLab, and so I have started expanding the entry.

    So far all I did is add more motivation and explanation to the first two axioms: 1. isotonic copresheaf of algebras and 2. causal locality.

    I won’t have much time to work on this these days, but maybe a little bit. I hope Todd will reply here and that in the course of further discussion we can see how the content of that entry can further be improved.

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 19th 2011

    At Haag-Kastler axioms I have expanded the section on Terminology and started a section on Motivation.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeSep 11th 2017

    I have tried to expand a little the opening sentences in the Idea-section at Haag-Kastler axioms.

    Also I tried to clean up the list of references. There were some pointers to articles by Summer et al. dropped there which clearly belonged to other entries: I moved them to scattering amplituce and to modular theory.

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2018

    added quote from Dyson 72

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    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018

    The ’E-invariance’ and ’P-invariance’ there refer to the Einstein group and the Poincaré group. Do we have the former by a different name? Dyson defines it as consisting of

    all one-to-one and twice-differentiable transformations of the coordinates.

    There’s a Wikipedia entry suggesting that Mendel Sachs found the group that Einstein was looking for. I see this same Sachs is generally not held in high esteem - Physics Stack Exchange.

    Dyson ends that section with

    The answer to my challenge will necessarily involve a delicate weaving together of concepts from differential geometry, functional analysis, and abstract algebra. With these words of warning I leave the problem to you.

    With the advantage of the best part of 50 years, is there anything to say to Dyson’s challenge?

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018

    It’s called the diffeomorphism group! :-)

    Wikipedia sometimes gets stuck with the weirdest of attributions, maybe because it discourages experts from editing, who might not be considered “neutral” enough.

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018

    Of course, you’re suggesting that there is plenty to say, as treated at AQFT on curved spacetimes.

    But is there some ’Einstein group’ at play?

    • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018

    It’s called the diffeomorphism group! :-)

    Did Dyson need to specify ’twice-differentiable’?

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018
    • (edited Apr 7th 2018)

    And how did this prediction pan out?

    If we try to replace the Poincaré group P by the Einstein group E, we have no way to define a space-like relationship between two regions, and axiom (5) becomes meaningless…an E-invariant axiom of local commutativity to replace axiom (5) will require at least some quantum-mechanical analog of Riemannian geometry.

    Would he take p.11 of QFT on curved spacetimes: axiomatic framework and examples as providing the right solution?

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2018
    • (edited Apr 7th 2018)

    Did Dyson need to specify ’twice-differentiable’?

    This comes from the fact that the Riemann tensor is second order in derivatives of the metric, so that the minimum order differentiablitiy that one needs to require in order to preserve the Einstein-Hilbert action of pure gravity is 2. But since one will generally want to allow various matter couplings which may have higher order derivatives in them (the whole action functional being transgressed from a Lagrangian density on the jet bundle) it is natural and has become standard to require arbitrary differntiability, hence diffeomorphism invariance.

    Clearly I cannot speak for Dyson, but my suggestion that the axioms of locally covariant AQFT (as in the article you now quote) are the fully satisfactory answer to the request for diffeomorphism-invariant quantum field theory on curved spacetime is well supported and widely accepted.

    Of course this describes QFT on general but classical gravity backgrounds. This includes perturbative quantum gravity but likely not non-perturbative quantum gravity. The latter remains famously an open issue.

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    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2023

    added more semi-publication data to this item:

    • Hans-Jürgen Borchers, On Revolutionizing of Quantum Field Theory with Tomita’s Modular Theory, ESI Preprint 773 (1999) [pdf]

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    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2024

    added pointer to:

    • Garth Warner: Quantum Field Theory Seminar (School of Haag-Kastler et al.), seminar notes, University of Washington [pdf]

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