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Renormalization of
determinant lines in quantum field theory
Nguyen Viet Dang |
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Vol. 15 (2022), No. 1, 1–62
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Abstract |
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On a compact manifold , we consider the affine space of non-self-adjoint perturbations of some invertible elliptic operator acting on sections of some Hermitian bundle by some differential operator of lower order. We construct and classify all complex-analytic functions on the Fréchet space vanishing exactly over noninvertible elements, having minimal growth at infinity along complex rays in and which are obtained by local renormalization, a concept coming from quantum field theory, called renormalized determinants. The additive group of local polynomial functionals of finite degrees acts freely and transitively on the space of renormalized determinants. We provide different representations of the renormalized determinants in terms of spectral zeta-determinants, Gaussian free fields, infinite products and renormalized Feynman amplitudes in perturbation theory in position space à la Epstein–Glaser. Specializing to the case of Dirac operators coupled to vector potentials and reformulating our results in terms of determinant line bundles, we prove our renormalized determinants define some complex-analytic trivializations of some holomorphic line bundle over . This relates our results to a conjectural picture from some unpublished notes by Quillen from April 1989. |
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Keywords
determinant lines, renormalization, quantum field theory
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 58J40, 58J50, 58J52, 81T16, 81T20
Secondary: 58B12
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Milestones
Received: 11 March 2019
Revised: 2 July 2020
Accepted: 15 September 2020
Published: 16 March 2022
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Authors |
| Nguyen Viet Dang | |
| Institut Camille Jordan (U.M.R. CNRS
5208) Université Claude Bernard Villeurbanne France |
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