Quantized generalized Causality for locally covariant quantum field theories
Let be the category of non-commutative, associative, -algebras, and let and be the categories of spacetime manifolds with admissible background fields, respectively with and without globally hyperbolic spacelike cone bundles. Let be a covariant functor and suppose there is a functor fitting into the stated commutative diagram and satisfying
where the limit is indexed by , whose objects are . Quantized generalized Causality conjecture. Whenever the specified Cauchy-pushout diagram exists in , the corresponding diagram with arrows induced by exists in , with the spacelike separated disjoint union replaced by the independent subsystems tensor product . This proposes that the generalized classical Causality construction survives perturbative quantization; no resolution is supplied.
References
Primary source
Igor Khavkine, “Characteristics, Conal Geometry and Causality in Locally Covariant Field Theory”, arXiv:1211.1914 (2012).
Progress summary
The conjecture that quantization preserves generalized causality has no recorded proof or counterexample.
The conjecture asks whether the generalized causality construction for locally covariant quantum field theories survives perturbative quantization. The catalogued 2012 source reports no resolution.
Current status (as of August 2026): No verified proof, disproof, or substantive advance is recorded; the conjecture remains open.
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