Boundary Conditions that Remove Certain Ultraviolet Divergences
arXiv:2406.16180 · doi:10.3390/sym13040577
Abstract
In quantum field theory, Hamiltonians contain particle creation and annihilation terms that are usually ultraviolet (UV) divergent. It is well known that these divergences can sometimes be removed by adding counter-terms and taking limits in which an UV cut-off tends to infinity. Here, I review a novel way of removing UV divergences: by imposing a kind of boundary condition on the wave function. These conditions, called interior-boundary conditions (IBCs), relate the values of the wave function at two configurations linked by the creation or annihilation of a particle. They allow for a direct definition of the Hamiltonian without renormalization or limiting procedures. In the last section, I review another boundary condition that serves for determining the probability distribution of detection times and places on a timelike 3-surface.
arXiv comment27 pages; published version, except that the bibliography has been updated; appeared in the special issue "Boundaries in Quantum Field Theories" guest edited by Nicola Maggiore (2021)
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