Modification of special relativity and formulation of convergent and invariant quantum field theory

Besides two fundamental postulates, (i) the principle of relativity and (ii) the constancy of the speed of light in all inertial frames of reference, the special theory of relativity uses another assumption. This other assumption concerns the Euclidean structure of gravity-free space and the homogeneity of gravity-free time in the usual inertial coordinate system. Introducing the primed inertial coordinate system, in addition to the usual inertial coordinate system, for each inertial frame of reference, we assume the Euclidean structures of gravity-free space and time in the primed inertial coordinate system and their generalized Finslerian structures in the usual inertial coordinate system. We combine the alternative assumption with the two postulates (i) and (ii) to modify the special theory of relativity. The modified special relativity theory involves two versions of the light speed, infinite c′ in the primed inertial coordinate system and finite c in the usual inertial coordinate system. It also involves the c′-type Galilean transformation between any two primed inertial coordinate systems and the localized Lorentz transformation between two corresponding usual inertial coordinate systems. Since all our experimental data are collected and expressed in the usual inertial coordinate system, the physical principle is: the c′-type Galilean invariance in the primed inertial coordinate system plus the transformation from the primed inertial coordinate system to the usual inertial coordinate system. This principle is applied to a reformulation of mechanics, field theory and quantum field theory. Relativistic mechanics in the usual inertial coordinate system is unchanged, while field theory is developed and divergence-free. Any c′-type Galilean-invariant field system can be quantized by using the canonical quantization method in the primed inertial coordinate system. We establish a transformation law for quantized field systems as they are transformed from the primed to the usual inertial coordinate system. It is shown that the modified special relativity theory, together with quantum mechanics, leads to a convergent and invariant quantum field theory, in full agreement with experimental facts. The formulation of this quantum field theory does not demand departures from the concepts such as local Lorentz invariance in the usual inertial coordinate system, locality of interactions, and local or global gauge symmetries.     

Instantons and gravitation theory

Some problems related to using nonperturbative quantization methods in theories of gauge fields and gravitation are studied. The unification of interactions is considered in the context of the geometric theory of gauge fields. The notion of vacuum in the unified interaction theory and the role of instantons in the vacuum structure are considered. The relation between the definitions of instantons and the energymomentum tensor of a gauge field and also the role played by the vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations in the definition of vacuum for gauge fields are demonstrated. The Schwarzschild solution, as well as the entire class of vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations, is a gravitational instanton even though the signature of the space-time metric is hyperbolic. Gravitation, oncluding the Einstein version, is considered a special case of an interaction described by a non-Abelian gauge field. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya. Fizika. Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 312–320, May. 1998.     

Quaternionic analysis, representation theory and physics

We develop quaternionic analysis using as a guiding principle representation theory of various real forms of the conformal group. We first review the Cauchy-Fueter and Poisson formulas and explain their representation theoretic meaning. The requirement of unitarity of representations leads us to the extensions of these formulas in the Minkowski space, which can be viewed as another real form of quaternions. Representation theory also suggests a quaternionic version of the Cauchy formula for the second order pole. Remarkably, the derivative appearing in the complex case is replaced by the Maxwell equations in the quaternionic counterpart. We also uncover the connection between quaternionic analysis and various structures in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, such as the spectrum of the hydrogen atom, polarization of vacuum, one-loop Feynman integrals. We also make some further conjectures. The main goal of this and our subsequent paper is to revive quaternionic analysis and to show profound relations between quaternionic analysis, representation theory and four-dimensional physics.     

Geodesic equations for a charged particle in the unified theory of gravitational and electromagnetic interactions

A new model of gravitational and electromagnetic interactions is constructed as a version of the classical Kaluza-Klein theory based on a five-dimensional manifold as the physical space-time. The velocity space of moving particles in the model remains four-dimensional as in the standard relativity theory. The spaces of particle velocities constitute a four-dimensional distribution over a smooth five-dimensional manifold. This distribution depends only on the electromagnetic field and is independent of the metric tensor field. We prove that the equations for the geodesics whose velocity vectors always belong to this distribution are the same as the charged particle equations of motion in the general relativity theory. The gauge transformations are interpreted in geometric terms as a particular form of coordinate transformations on the five-dimensional manifold. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 119, No. 3, pp. 517–528, June, 1999.     

Modification of special relativity and local structures of gravity-free space and time

Besides two fundamental postulates, (i) the principle of relativity and (ii) the constancy of the one-way speed of light in all inertial frames of reference, the special theory of relativity uses the assumption about the Euclidean structure of gravity-free space and the homogeneity of gravity-free time in the usual inertial coordinate system. Introducing the so-called primed inertial coordinate system, in addition to the usual inertial coordinate system, for each inertial frame of reference, we assume the flat structures of gravity-free space and time in the primed inertial coordinate system and their generalized Finslerian structures in the usual inertial coordinate system. We combine this assumption with the two postulates (i) and (ii) to modify the special theory of relativity. The modified special relativity theory involves two versions of the light speed, infinite speed c^′ in the primed inertial coordinate system and finite speed c in the usual inertial coordinate system. It also involves the c^′-type Galilean transformation between any two primed inertial coordinate systems and the localized Lorentz transformation between any two usual inertial coordinate systems. The physical principle is: the c^′-type Galilean invariance in the primed inertial coordinate system plus the transformation from the primed to the usual inertial coordinate systems. Evidently, the modified special relativity theory and the quantum mechanics theory together found a convergent and invariant quantum field theory.     

Field equations in teleparallel space–time: Einstein's Fernparallelismus approach toward unified field theory

A historical account of Einstein's Fernparallelismus approach toward a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism is given. In this theory, a space–time characterized by a curvature-free connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field, is investigated. The approach was pursued by Einstein in a number of publications that appeared in the period from summer 1928 until spring 1931. In the historical analysis special attention is given to the question of how Einstein tried to find field equations for the tetrads. We claim that it was the failure to find and justify a uniquely determined set of acceptable field equations that eventually led to Einstein's abandoning this approach. We comment on some historical and systematic similarities between the Fernparallelismus episode and the Entwurf theory, i.e., the precursor theory of general relativity pursued by Einstein in the years 1912–1915.     

Mathematical theory of physical vacuum

This article sets out mathematical basics of unifying fundamental physical theory, with a single postulate of nonvoid physical vacuum. It will be shown that all basic equations of classical electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and gravitation theory could be derived from two nonlinear equations, which define dynamics of physical vacuum in three-dimensional Euclidean space and, in turn, are derived from equations of Newtonian mechanics. Through the characteristics of physical vacuum, namely its density and propagation velocity of various density’s perturbations, such principal physical conceptions as matter and antimatter, electric, magnetic and gravitational fields, velocity of light, electron, photon and other elementary particles, internal energy, mass, charge, spin, quantum properties, Planck constant and fine structure constant will have clear and sane definitions.     

On a model of quantum field theory

A model of quantum field theory in an accelerated frame of reference is considered. It was suggested by Unruh that a uniformly accelerated detector in vacuum would perceive a noise with a thermal Gibbsian distribution. However, in justifying the assertion a singular transformation was implicitly performed, and doubts were expressed by some researches. We discuss a model of quantum field theory in an accelerated frame of reference in the two-dimensional spacetime for the wave equation. By using the Mellin transform, we obtain a representation of solutions of the wave equation. The representation includes a dependence on a parameter. The Unruh field corresponds to a singular limit of the representation.     

Adiabatic Vacuum States on General Spacetime Manifolds: Definition, Construction, and Physical Properties

Adiabatic vacuum states are a well-known class of physical states for linear quantum fields on Robertson-Walker spacetimes. We extend the definition of adiabatic vacua to general spacetime manifolds by using the notion of the Sobolev wavefront set. This definition is also applicable to interacting field theories. Hadamard states form a special subclass of the adiabatic vacua. We analyze physical properties of adiabatic vacuum representations of the Klein-Gordon field on globally hyperbolic spacetime manifolds (factoriality, quasiequivalence, local definiteness, Haag duality) and construct them explicitly, if the manifold has a compact Cauchy surface.     

Quaternions,Fréchet differentiation,and some equations of mathematical physics 1. Critical point theory

Following an introduction discussing some properties of maps Q → Q and Q × Q → Q, where Q denotes the ring of quaternions, it is shown that many equations of mathematical physics can be written in this formalism. A concept of Fréchet differentiation is given in this setting, in a manner analogous to the usual definition. Variational principles are derived. The physical examples involve elasticity, motion of rigid bodies, fluid flow and Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic field theory.     

Waves, particles and fields: an explicitly covariant approach

The idea of associating particle trajectories with wave propagation rays exploited in a previous paper in the context of general relativity with a synchronous gauge, here is examined with no assumptions on co-ordinate choice (no synchronous gauge condition on the metric). Identification of particle Hamilton–Jacobi equation with wave-sheet equation in a space–time with more than 4 dimensions, is performed in an explicitly covariant formulation, leading to a Kaluza–Klein type theory involving Klein–Gordon equation arising from dilaton field equations. De Broglie and Einstein-Planck quantum relations are also deduced in a natural way. Adding suitable Yang–Mills fields provides unification of gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions into a $16$ dimensional space–time geometry. The electron mass gap is also avoided compactifying extra dimensional co-ordinates on fractalized closed paths.     

Elektrodynamik mit Spin

Atomistic equations of the electromagnetic field for a particle with spin are derived from a Lagrangian. These equations are consistent with the equations of motion for such a particle. The resulting phenomenological equations are the well-known equations of Maxwell for the electromagnetic field in matter. The atomistic field equations for a particle with spin and magnetic moment give a dipole field. This result and the corresponding quantum mechanics for a particle with spin are applied to compute the hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom by perturbation theory.     

Existence and blow-up of the solutions to the viscous quantum magnetohydrodynamic nematic liquid crystal model

In this paper, we investigate the coupled viscous quantum magnetohydrodynamic equations and nematic liquid crystal equations which describe the motion of the nematic liquid crystals under the magnetic field and the quantum effects in the two-dimensional case. We prove the existence of the global finite energy weak solutions by use of a singular pressure close to vacuum. Then we obtain the local-in-time existence of the smooth solution. In the final, the blow-up of the smooth solutions is studied. The main techniques are Faedo-Galerkin method, compactness theory, Arzela-Ascoli theorem and construction of the functional differential inequality.     

A theory of regularity structures

We introduce a new notion of “regularity structure” that provides an algebraic framework allowing to describe functions and/or distributions via a kind of “jet” or local Taylor expansion around each point. The main novel idea is to replace the classical polynomial model which is suitable for describing smooth functions by arbitrary models that are purpose-built for the problem at hand. In particular, this allows to describe the local behaviour not only of functions but also of large classes of distributions. We then build a calculus allowing to perform the various operations (multiplication, composition with smooth functions, integration against singular kernels) necessary to formulate fixed point equations for a very large class of semilinear PDEs driven by some very singular (typically random) input. This allows, for the first time, to give a mathematically rigorous meaning to many interesting stochastic PDEs arising in physics. The theory comes with convergence results that allow to interpret the solutions obtained in this way as limits of classical solutions to regularised problems, possibly modified by the addition of diverging counterterms. These counterterms arise naturally through the action of a “renormalisation group” which is defined canonically in terms of the regularity structure associated to the given class of PDEs. Our theory also allows to easily recover many existing results on singular stochastic PDEs (KPZ equation, stochastic quantisation equations, Burgers-type equations) and to understand them as particular instances of a unified framework. One surprising insight is that in all of these instances local solutions are actually “smooth” in the sense that they can be approximated locally to arbitrarily high degree as linear combinations of a fixed family of random functions/distributions that play the role of “polynomials” in the theory. As an example of a novel application, we solve the long-standing problem of building a natural Markov process that is symmetric with respect to the (finite volume) measure describing the \(\Phi ^4_3\) Euclidean quantum field theory. It is natural to conjecture that the Markov process built in this way describes the Glauber dynamic of \(3\) -dimensional ferromagnets near their critical temperature.     

Uniqueness of Kottler spacetime and the Besse conjecture

We establish a black hole uniqueness theorem for Schwarzschild–de Sitter spacetime, also called Kottler spacetime, which satisfies Einstein's field equations of general relativity with positive cosmological constant. Our result concerns the class of static vacuum spacetimes with compact spacelike slices and regular maximal level set of the lapse function. We provide a characterization of the interior domain of communication of the Kottler spacetime, which surrounds an inner horizon and is surrounded by a cosmological horizon. The proof combines arguments from the theory of partial differential equations and differential geometry, and is centered on a detailed study of a possibly singular foliation. We also apply our technique in the Riemannian setting, and establish the validity of the so-called Besse conjecture.     

Fractional dynamics and the TeV regime of field theory

Fractional dynamics offers a reliable tool for the study of far-from equilibrium processes that display scale-invariant properties, dissipation and long-range correlations. This is particularly attractive when dealing with the complex dynamics generated in the deep ultraviolet regime of quantum field theory. We analyze a simple scalar field Lagrangian using Caputo derivatives and the approximation of low-level fractionality. Results may be extrapolated to more realistic field models and suggest a series of surprising implications regarding phenomena that are expected to emerge beyond the range of the standard model for particle physics.     

Statistical field theory of a nonadditive system

Based on quantum field methods, we develop a statistical theory of complex systems with nonadditive potentials. Using the Martin-Siggia-Rose method, we find the effective system Lagrangian, from which we obtain evolution equations for the most probable values of the order parameter and its fluctuation amplitudes. We show that these equations are unchanged under deformations of the statistical distribution while the probabilities of realizing different phase trajectories depend essentially on the nonadditivity parameter. We find the generating functional of a nonadditive system and establish its relation to correlation functions; we introduce a pair of additive generating functionals whose expansion terms determine the set of multipoint Green’s functions and their self-energy parts. We find equations for the generating functional of a system having an internal symmetry and constraints. In the harmonic approximation framework, we determine the partition function and moments of the order parameter depending on the nonadditivity parameter. We develop a perturbation theory that allows calculating corrections of an arbitrary order to the indicated quantities.     

Convergence and spectral analysis of the Frontini-Sormani family of multipoint third order methods from quadrature rule

Point of attraction theory is an important tool to analyze the local convergence of iterative methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. In this work, we prove a generalized form of Ortega-Rheinbolt result based on point of attraction theory. The new result guarantees that the solution of the nonlinear system is a point of attraction of iterative scheme, especially multipoint iterations. We then apply it to study the attraction theorem of the Frontini-Sormani family of multipoint third order methods from Quadrature Rule. Error estimates are given and compared with existing ones. We also obtain the radius of convergence of the special members of the family. Two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the theory. Further, a spectral analysis of the Discrete Fourier Transform of the numerical errors is conducted in order to find the best method of the family. The convergence and the spectral analysis of a multistep version of one of the special member of the family are studied.     

Equilibrium statistical theory for nearly parallel vortex filaments

The first mathematically rigorous equilibrium statistical theory for three‐dimensional vortex filaments is developed here in the context of the simplified asymptotic equations for nearly parallel vortex filaments, which have been derived recently by Klein, Majda, and Damodaran. These simplified equations arise from a systematic asymptotic expansion of the Navier‐Stokes equation and involve the motion of families of curves, representing the vortex filaments, under linearized self‐induction and mutual potential vortex interaction. We consider here the equilibrium statistical mechanics of arbitrarily large numbers of nearly parallel filaments with equal circulations. First, the equilibrium Gibbs ensemble is written down exactly through function space integrals; then a suitably scaled mean field statistical theory is developed in the limit of infinitely many interacting filaments. The mean field equations involve a novel Hartree‐like problem with a two‐body logarithmic interaction potential and an inverse temperature given by the normalized length of the filaments. We analyze the mean field problem and show various equivalent variational formulations of it. The mean field statistical theory for nearly parallel vortex filaments is compared and contrasted with the well‐known mean field statistical theory for two‐dimensional point vortices. The main ideas are first introduced through heuristic reasoning and then are confirmed by a mathematically rigorous analysis. A potential application of this statistical theory to rapidly rotating convection in geophysical flows is also discussed briefly. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Quantum statistical theory of radiation friction of a relativistic electron

We comprehensively investigate the effect of quantum space-time nonlocality that accounts for retardation of the electron interaction with both the electron’s own radiation field and the fluctuation field of the electromagnetic vacuum. We rigorously show that the quantum nonlocality effect eliminates the self-acceleration and the causality violation paradoxes that are inherent in the classical theory of radiation friction. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 158, No. 3, pp. 478–496, March, 2009.