/- Copyright (c) 2024 Joseph Tooby-Smith. All rights reserved. Released under Apache 2.0 license as described in the file LICENSE. Authors: Joseph Tooby-Smith -/ import HepLean.PertubationTheory.Wick.Species /-! # Operator algebra Currently this file is only for an example of Wick strings, correpsonding to a theory with two complex scalar fields. The concepts will however generalize. This file is currently a stub. We will formally define the operator ring, in terms of the fields present in the theory. ## Futher reading - https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/258718/ and links therein - Ryan Thorngren (https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/10336/ryan-thorngren), Fermions, different species and (anti-)commutation rules, URL (version: 2019-02-20) : https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/461929 -/ namespace Wick open CategoryTheory open FeynmanDiagram open PreFeynmanRule informal_definition WickAlgebra where math :≈ " Modifications of this may be needed. A structure with the following data: - A ℤ₂-graded algebra A. - A map from `ψ : 𝓔 × SpaceTime → A` where 𝓔 are field colors. - A map `ψc : 𝓔 × SpaceTime → A`. - A map `ψd : 𝓔 × SpaceTime → A`. Subject to the conditions: - The sum of `ψc` and `ψd` is `ψ`. - Two fields super-commute if there colors are not dual to each other. - The super-commutator of two fields is always in the center of the algebra. " physics :≈ "This is defined to be an abstraction of the notion of an operator algebra." ref :≈ "https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24157/" informal_definition WickMonomial where math :≈ "The type of elements of the Wick algebra which is a product of fields." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra] namespace WickMonomial informal_definition toWickAlgebra where math :≈ "A function from WickMonomial to WickAlgebra which takes a monomial and returns the product of the fields in the monomial." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial] informal_definition timeOrder where math :≈ "A function from WickMonomial to WickAlgebra which takes a monomial and returns the monomial with the fields time ordered, with the correct sign determined by the Koszul sign factor. If two fields have the same time, then their order is preserved e.g. T(ψ₁(t)ψ₂(t)) = ψ₁(t)ψ₂(t) and T(ψ₂(t)ψ₁(t)) = ψ₂(t)ψ₁(t). This allows us to make sense of the construction in e.g. https://www.physics.purdue.edu/~clarkt/Courses/Physics662/ps/qftch32.pdf which permits normal-ordering within time-ordering. " deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial] informal_definition normalOrder where math :≈ "A function from WickMonomial to WickAlgebra which takes a monomial and returns the element in `WickAlgebra` defined as follows - The ψd fields are move to the right. - The ψc fields are moved to the left. - Othewise the order of the fields is preserved." ref :≈ "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/theoretical-physics/msc/current/qft/handouts/qftwickstheorem.pdf" deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial] end WickMonomial informal_definition contraction where math :≈ "Given two `i j : 𝓔 × SpaceTime`, the element of WickAlgebra defined by subtracting the normal ordering of `ψ i ψ j` from the time-ordering of `ψ i ψ j`." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial] informal_lemma contraction_in_center where math :≈ "The contraction of two fields is in the center of the algebra." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``contraction] informal_lemma contraction_non_dual_is_zero where math :≈ "The contraction of two fields is zero if the fields are not dual to each other." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``contraction] informal_lemma timeOrder_single where math :≈ "The time ordering of a single field is the normal ordering of that field." proof :≈ "Follows from the definitions." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial.timeOrder, ``WickMonomial.normalOrder] informal_lemma timeOrder_pair where math :≈ "The time ordering of two fields is the normal ordering of the fields plus the contraction of the fields." proof :≈ "Follows from the definition of contraction." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial.timeOrder, ``WickMonomial.normalOrder, ``contraction] informal_definition WickMap where math :≈ "A linear map `vev` from the Wick algebra `A` to the underlying field such that `vev(...ψd(t)) = 0` and `vev(ψc(t)...) = 0`." physics :≈ "An abstraction of the notion of a vacuum expectation value, containing the necessary properties for lots of theorems to hold." deps :≈ [``WickAlgebra, ``WickMonomial] informal_lemma normalOrder_wickMap where math :≈ "Any normal ordering maps to zero under a Wick map." deps :≈ [``WickMap, ``WickMonomial.normalOrder] end Wick