Källén–Lehmann spectrum conjecture for propagators on hyperbolic and Euclidean manifolds

Let MM be a manifold whose universal cover is Hd\mathbb{H}^{d} or Rd\mathbb{R}^{d}. In the hyperboloid model, or in the pacman model, consider the proper times associated with the deck transformations of a point yy, and suppose these proper times can be partitioned into disjoint periodic collections of the form αiN+bi\alpha_i\mathbb{N}+b_i. Denote the resulting partition by WMW_M.

Källén–Lehmann spectrum conjecture. The free scalar propagator on MM has a Källén–Lehmann power spectrum ρ(m)\rho(m) equivalent to

ρ(m)=δ(m)+i=1aiδ(mmi)m,\rho(m)=\delta(m)+\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{a_i\delta(m-m_i)}{m},

where mii=1R\\{m_i\\}_{i=1}^{\infty}\subset\mathbb{R} is a discrete set whose only cluster point is zero, with mi0m_i\to0 implying ai0a_i\to0. For each mim_i, there is some αiWM\alpha_i\in W_M such that αimi4πN\alpha_i m_i\in4\pi\mathbb{N}.

The source explicitly says that this is a theorem for manifolds whose universal cover is Rd\mathbb{R}^{d}; it does not provide a resolution status for the corresponding claim in the broader hyperbolic-or-Euclidean formulation.

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Primary source

Rory O'Dwyer, “A Geometric Picture of Perturbative QFT”, arXiv:2310.08695 (2023).

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