Quantized generalized Causality for locally covariant quantum field theories

Let -Alg{*}\text{-}\mathfrak{Alg} be the category of non-commutative, associative, *-algebras, and let Bkgrc\mathfrak{Bkgr}_c and SpBkgrc\mathfrak{SpBkgr}_c be the categories of spacetime manifolds with admissible background fields, respectively with and without globally hyperbolic spacelike cone bundles. Let F^H ⁣:Bkgrc-Alg\hat{\mathcal{F}}_H\colon\mathfrak{Bkgr}_c\to {*}\text{-}\mathfrak{Alg} be a covariant functor and suppose there is a functor F^ ⁣:SpBkgrc-Alg\hat{\mathcal{F}}\colon\mathfrak{SpBkgr}_c\to {*}\text{-}\mathfrak{Alg} fitting into the stated commutative diagram and satisfying

FH(M,B)=limF(M,B),\mathcal{F}_H(M,\mathcal{B})=\varprojlim \mathscr{F}(M,\mathcal{B}),

where the limit is indexed by SpBkgrc(M,B)SpBkgrc\mathfrak{SpBkgr}_c(M,\mathcal{B})\subseteq\mathfrak{SpBkgr}_c, whose objects are M=(M,C\first,B)\mathcal{M}=(M,C^\first,\mathcal{B}). Quantized generalized Causality conjecture. Whenever the specified Cauchy-pushout diagram exists in SpBkgrc\mathfrak{SpBkgr}_c, the corresponding diagram with arrows induced by F^\hat{\mathcal{F}} exists in -Alg{*}\text{-}\mathfrak{Alg}, with the spacelike separated disjoint union replaced by the independent subsystems tensor product F^(M1)F^(M2)\hat{\mathcal{F}}(\mathcal{M}_1)\otimes\hat{\mathcal{F}}(\mathcal{M}_2). This proposes that the generalized classical Causality construction survives perturbative quantization; no resolution is supplied.

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Igor Khavkine, “Characteristics, Conal Geometry and Causality in Locally Covariant Field Theory”, arXiv:1211.1914 (2012).

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