Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-01-15
Commun.Math.Phys.237:221-241,2003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
LaTeX (using amsmath, amssymb), 23 pages, 1 figure. Dedicated to Rudolf Haag on the occasion of his 80th birthday. See also: h
Scientific paper
10.1007/s00220-003-0857-x
We discuss a formulation of quantum field theory on quantum space time where the perturbation expansion of the S-matrix is term by term ultraviolet finite. The characteristic feature of our approach is a quantum version of the Wick product at coinciding points: the differences of coordinates q_j - q_k are not set equal to zero, which would violate the commutation relation between their components. We show that the optimal degree of approximate coincidence can be defined by the evaluation of a conditional expectation which replaces each function of q_j - q_k by its expectation value in optimally localized states, while leaving the mean coordinates (q_1 + ... + q_n)/n invariant. The resulting procedure is to a large extent unique, and is invariant under translations and rotations, but violates Lorentz invariance. Indeed, optimal localization refers to a specific Lorentz frame, where the electric and magnetic parts of the commutator of the coordinates have to coincide *). Employing an adiabatic switching, we show that the S-matrix is term by term finite. The matrix elements of the transfer matrix are determined, at each order in the perturbative expansion, by kernels with Gaussian decay in the Planck scale. The adiabatic limit and the large scale limit of this theory will be studied elsewhere. -- *) S. Doplicher, K. Fredenhagen, and J.E.Roberts, Commun. Math. Phys. 172, 187 (1995) [arXiv:hep-th/0303037]
Bahns Dorothea
Doplicher Sergio
Fredenhagen Klaus
Piacitelli Gherardo
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