Snowmass white paper: The quest to define QFT

M Dedushenko - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2023 - World Scientific
This paper provides a review of the literature on rigorous definitions and constructions in
quantum field theory (QFT), spanning the period of seven decades. Compared with the …

Higher geometry in physics

L Alfonsi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07308, 2023 - arxiv.org
This survey article is an invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics,
2nd edition. We provide an accessible overview on relevant applications of higher and …

Causality in Schwinger's picture of Quantum Mechanics

FM Ciaglia, F Di Cosmo, A Ibort, G Marmo, L Schiavone… - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper begins the study of the relation between causality and quantum mechanics,
taking advantage of the groupoidal description of quantum mechanical systems inspired by …

Lorentzian 2d CFT from the pAQFT perspective

S Crawford, K Rejzner, B Vicedo - Annales Henri Poincaré, 2022 - Springer
We provide a detailed construction of the quantum theory of the massless scalar field on two-
dimensional, globally hyperbolic (in particular, Lorentzian) manifolds using the framework of …

Operads, homotopy theory and higher categories in algebraic quantum field theory

M Benini, A Schenkel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.03372, 2023 - arxiv.org
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2023 Operads, homotopy theory and higher categories in algebraic quantum field theory …

Extended Field Theories as higher Kaluza-Klein theories

L Alfonsi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10297, 2021 - arxiv.org
Extended Field Theories include Double Field Theory (DFT) and Exceptional Field Theory,
which are respectively the T-and U-duality covariant formulations of the supergravity limit of …

Haag-Kastler stacks

M Benini, A Grant-Stuart, A Schenkel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14510, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper provides an alternative implementation of the principle of general local
covariance for algebraic quantum field theories (AQFTs) which is more flexible and powerful …

Derived algebraic geometry of 2d lattice Yang-Mills theory

M Benini, T Fernández, A Schenkel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06873, 2024 - arxiv.org
A derived algebraic geometric study of classical $\mathrm {GL} _n $-Yang-Mills theory on
the $2 $-dimensional square lattice $\mathbb {Z}^ 2$ is presented. The derived critical locus …

Lorentzian bordisms in algebraic quantum field theory

S Bunk, J MacManus, A Schenkel - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01026, 2023 - arxiv.org
It is shown that every algebraic quantum field theory has an underlying functorial field theory
which is defined on a suitable globally hyperbolic Lorentzian bordism pseudo-category. This …

[PDF][PDF] Quantization of derived cotangent stacks and gauge theory on directed graphs

M Benini, JP Pridham, A Schenkel - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
We study the quantization of the canonical unshifted Poisson structure on the derived
cotangent stack T∗[X/G] of a quotient stack, where X is a smooth affine scheme with an …