Geometric flavours of Quantum Field theory on a Cauchy hypersurface. Part I: Gaussian analysis and other Mathematical aspects

TL;DR

This paper develops a rigorous mathematical framework for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes using Gaussian analysis and infinite-dimensional distribution spaces, focusing on the Schrödinger and Holomorphic pictures.

Contribution

It introduces Gaussian analysis tools in infinite-dimensional spaces, laying the groundwork for quantization of quantum fields on curved Cauchy hypersurfaces.

Findings

Wiener-Ito decomposition aids particle interpretation in QFT.

Hida test functions as second quantized test functions.

Analysis of classical field distributions for quantization.

Abstract

In this series of papers we aim to provide a mathematically comprehensive framework to the Hamiltonian pictures of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. Our final goal is to study the kinematics and the dynamics of the theory from the point of differential geometry in infinite dimensions.In this first part we introduce the tools of Gaussian analysis in infinite dimensional spaces of distributions. These spaces will serve the basis to understand the Schr\"odinger and Holomorphic pictures, over arbitrary Cauchy hypersurfaces, using tools of Hida-Malliavin calculus. Here the Wiener-Ito decomposition theorem provides the QFT particle interpretation. Special emphasis is done in the applications to quantization of these tools in the second part of this paper. We devote a section to introduce Hida test functions as a notion of second quantized test functions. We also analyze of the ingredients of classical field theory modeled as distributions paving the way for quantization procedures that will be analyzed in the second part of this series.