Boundary conditions and consistency of effective theories

Details Boundary conditions and consistency of effective theories Boundary conditions and consistency of effective theories

2010-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0789v1

Phys.Rev.D81:085040,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pages, no figures, to appear in Physical Review D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.085040

Effective theories are non-local at the scale of the eliminated heavy particles modes. The gradient expansion which represents such non-locality must be truncated to have treatable models. This step leads to the proliferation of the degrees of freedom which renders the identification of the states of the effective theory nontrivial. Furthermore it generates non-definite metric in the Fock space which in turn endangers the unitarity of the effective theory. It is shown that imposing a generalized KMS boundary conditions for the new degrees of freedom leads to reflection positivity for a wide class of Euclidean effective theories, thereby these lead to acceptable theories when extended to real time.

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