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Dr. Albert Much

Researcher


Universität Leipzig

E-mail: much(at)itp.uni-leipzig.de

Project

47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces

Publications within SPP2026

The fermionic von Neumann entropy, the fermionic entanglement entropy and the fermionic relative entropy are defined for causal fermion systems. Our definition makes use of entropy formulas for quasi-free fermionic states in terms of the reduced one-particle density operator. Our definitions are illustrated in various examples for Dirac spinors in two- and four-dimensional Minkowski space, in the Schwarzschild black hole geometry and for fermionic lattices. We review area laws for the two-dimensional diamond and a three-dimensional spatial region in Minkowski space. The connection is made to the computation of the relative entropy using modular theory.

 

JournalMath. Phys. Anal. Geom. , 7 (2025) 42pp
PublisherSpringer Nature
Volume28
Pages7, 42pp
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47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces

The fermionic Rényi entanglement entropy is studied for causal diamonds in two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Choosing the quasi-free state describing the Minkowski vacuum with an ultraviolet regularization, a logarithmically enhanced area law is derived.

 

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47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces

The bosonic signature operator is defined for Klein-Gordon fields and massless scalar fields on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds of infinite lifetime. The construction is based on an analysis of families of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation with a varying mass parameter. It makes use of the so-called bosonic mass oscillation property which states that integrating over the mass parameter generates decay of the field at infinity. We derive a canonical decomposition of the solution space of the Klein-Gordon equation into two subspaces, independent of observers or the choice of coordinates. This decomposition endows the solution space with a canonical complex structure. It also gives rise to a distinguished quasi-free state. Taking a suitable limit where the mass tends to zero, we obtain corresponding results for massless fields. Our constructions and results are illustrated in the examples of Minkowski space and ultrastatic spacetimes.

 

JournalAnn. Henri Poincaré (2023)
PublisherSpringer Nature
Volume24
Pages1185-1209
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47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces

This chapter is an up-to-date account of results on globally hyperbolic spacetimes and serves as a multitool; we start the exposition of results from a foundational level, where the main tools are order-theory and general topology, we continue with results of a more geometric nature, and we finally reach results that are connected to the most recent advances in theoretical physics. In each case, we list a number of open questions and we finally introduce a conjecture, on sliced spaces.

 

JournalIn: Parasidis, I.N., Providas, E., Rassias, T.M. (eds) Mathematical Analysis in Interdisciplinary Research. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 179. Springer, Cham.
PublisherSpringer, Cham
BookSpringer Optimization and Its Applications
Volume179
Pages281–295
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47Self-adjointness of Laplace and Dirac operators on Lorentzian manifolds foliated by noncompact hypersurfaces

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