/- 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.PerturbationTheory.Wick.Species import HepLean.Mathematics.SuperAlgebra.Basic import HepLean.Meta.Notes.Basic /-! # 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. 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 - Tong, https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft/qft.pdf -/ note "

Operator algebra

The operator algebra is a super-algebra over the complex numbers, which acts on the Hilbert space of the theory. A super-algebra is an algebra with a Z/2 grading. To do pertubation theory in a QFT we need a need some basic properties of the operator algebra, $A$. " namespace Wick informal_definition_note WickAlgebra where math :≈ " Modifications of this may be needed. A structure with the following data: - A super algebra A. - A map from `ψ : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime → A` where S.𝓯 are field colors. - A map `ψc : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime → A`. - A map `ψd : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime → A`. Subject to the conditions: - The sum of `ψc` and `ψd` is `ψ`. - All maps land on homogeneous elements. - 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. Asympotic states: - `φc : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime → A`. The creation asympotic state (incoming). - `φd : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime → A`. The destruction asympotic state (outgoing). Subject to the conditions: ... " physics :≈ "This is defined to be an abstraction of the notion of an operator algebra." ref :≈ "https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24157/" deps :≈ [``SuperAlgebra, ``SuperAlgebra.superCommuator] informal_definition_note 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 asymptoicContract where math :≈ "Given two `i j : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime`, the super-commutator [φd(i), ψ(j)]." ref :≈ "See e.g. http://www.dylanjtemples.com:82/solutions/QFT_Solution_I-6.pdf" informal_definition contractAsymptotic where math :≈ "Given two `i j : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime`, the super-commutator [ψ(i), φc(j)]." informal_definition asymptoicContractAsymptotic where math :≈ "Given two `i j : S.𝓯 × SpaceTime`, the super-commutator [φd(i), φc(j)]." informal_definition contraction where math :≈ "Given two `i j : S.𝓯 × 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