Hamiltonian renormalisation I: derivation from Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction

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作者
Lang, T. [1 ]
Liegener, K. [1 ]
Thiemann, T. [1 ]
机构
[1] FAU Erlangen Nurnberg, Inst Quantum Grav, Staudtstr 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
关键词
constructive QFT; renormalisation; background-independence; canonical formulation; QUANTUM-GRAVITY AQG; COHERENT STATES GCS; SPIN DYNAMICS QSD; FIELD-THEORY; GENERAL-RELATIVITY; CONSTRAINT; SPACE;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6382/aaec56
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A possible avenue towards a non-perturbative quantum field theory (QFT) on Minkowski space is the constructive approach which employs the Euclidian path integral formulation, in the presence of both ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) regulators, as starting point. The UV regulator is to be taken away by renormalisation group techniques which in case of success leads to a measure on the space of generalised Euclidian fields in finite volume. The removal of the IR regulator corresponds to the thermodynamic limit of the system in the statistical physics sense. If the resulting measure obeys the Osterwalder-Schrader axioms, the actual QFT on Minkowski space is then obtained by Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction. In this work we study the question whether it is possible to reformulate the renormalisation group non-perturbatively directly at the operator (Hamiltonian) level. Hamiltonian renormalisation would be the natural route to follow if one had easier access to an interacting Hamiltonian operator rather than to a path integral, at least in the presence of UV and/or IR cut-off, which is generically the case in complicated gauge theories such as general relativity. Our guiding principle for the definition of the direct Hamiltonian renormalisation group is that it results in the same continuum theory as the covariant (path integral) renormalisation group. This makes the present work different from other approaches to Hamiltonian renormalisation. In order to achieve this, we invert the Osterwalder-Schrader reconstruction, which may be called Osterwalder-Schrader construction of a Wiener measure from the underlying Hamiltonian theory. The resulting correspondence between reflection positive measures and Osterwalder-Schrader data consisting of a Hilbert space, a Hamiltonian and a ground state vector allows us to monitor the effect of the renormalisation flow of measures in terms of their OsterwalderSchrader data which motivates a natural direct Hamiltonian renormalisation scheme.
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