Flat Bundles on Function Manifolds and Evolution Equations in Quantum Field Theories

TL;DR

This paper extends canonical quantization in quantum field theories using flat bundles on infinite-dimensional manifolds, generalizing evolution equations and exploring the mathematical structure of physical states.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic treatment of flat bundles in infinite-dimensional settings and generalizes Hamiltonian and renormalization group evolution equations in quantum field theories.

Findings

Construction of a moduli space of flat connections.

Development of a family of functional flat bundles with rational connections.

Physical states linked to points in the moduli space of bundles.

Abstract

In this paper we discuss extensions of the canonical quantization procedure in quantum field theories. We focus specifically on S-matrix representation as a T-exponent. This extension involves flat bundles on certain infinite dimensional functional manifolds of local time. The motivating problem is first principles treatment of bound states in quantum chromodynamics as well as precision physics of hydrogen atom and the muonium. Our main results include systematic treatment of flat bundles in an infinite dimensional setting, generalization of Hamiltonian evolution and functional renormalization group evolution equations in quantum field theories. We discuss several results from finite dimensional theory that have analogies in the functional setting. This includes construction of moduli space of flat connections and isomonodromic deformations. One of the outcomes of our analysis is a construction of a rich family of functional flat bundles with rational connections. This class of connections exhibits a rich set of mathematical properties. In particular, we construct examples of spaces fundamental groups of which have a definable continuum of generators. Physical states correspond to points in the moduli space of bundles on these spaces. On the physics side of things, we conclude that spacetime notions, such as spaces of particle configurations, emerge effectively as spectral sets of functional differential operators.