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View SchemaDouble Categorical Approaches to AQFT I: Axiomatic Setup
| Authors | Khyathi Komalan |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.07807vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07807 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
In operator-algebraic AQFT one routinely moves back and forth between two kinds of structure: inclusions of local algebras coming from inclusions of regions, and bimodules/intertwiners that implement the standard $L^2$-based constructions used to compare and compose observables. The obstruction to making this interplay genuinely functorial is that there are two independent compositions (restriction along inclusions and fusion/transport along bimodules) and they must be compatible on commuting spacetime diagrams, which is exactly the situation a double category is designed to encode. Part I resolves this by building a spacetime double category and a von Neumann algebra double category inspired by previous work by Orendain, and by packaging an AQFT input as a pseudo double functor whose vertical part is the Haag-Kastler net and whose squares record the required compatibilities in a well-typed way forced by commutativity. We formulate the Haag-Kastler axioms in this setup, establish the coherence needed for the construction, and work out representative examples.
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