Deformations of quantum field theories and integrable models

Apr, 2011
36 pages
Published in:
  • Commun.Math.Phys. 312 (2012) 265-302
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Deformations of quantum field theories which preserve Poincar\'e covariance and localization in wedges are a novel tool in the analysis and construction of model theories. Here a general scenario for such deformations is discussed, and an infinite class of explicit examples is constructed on the Borchers-Uhlmann algebra underlying Wightman quantum field theory. These deformations exist independently of the space-time dimension, and contain the recently studied warped convolution deformation as a special case. In the special case of two-dimensional Minkowski space, they can be used to deform free field theories to integrable models with non-trivial S-matrix.
Note:
  • 36 pages, no figures: Minor changes and corrections in Section 3. Added new Section 5 on von Neumann algebraic formulation, and modular structure
  • field theory: deformation
  • model: integrability
  • dimension: 2
  • localization
  • S-matrix
  • Poincare
  • algebra: tensor
  • algebra: deformation
  • n-point function
  • warped