BIMSA > Geometry and Physics Seminar An Introduction to Schrodinger Wave Functionals
An Introduction to Schrodinger Wave Functionals
Organizers
Hamed Adami , Chi Ming Chang , Mohammad Yavartanoo
Speaker
Jarah Evslin
Time
Thursday, February 24, 2022 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Venue
中会议室一
Online
Zoom 361 038 6975 (BIMSA)
Abstract
Each configuration in a quantum field theory corresponds to a map from a space X of functions or bundles with sections to the space of complex numbers. These maps are called Schrodinger wave functionals. They generalize wave functions in quantum mechanics, which are maps from a finite-dimensional manifold to the complex numbers. We review the main properties of wave functions and wave functionals in a series of examples. We describe an embedding of X into this quantum configuration space and argue that perturbative quantum field theory only probes a tubular neighborhood of its image, but that the poorly understood global properties of the quantum configuration space are relevant to the confinement problem in supersymmetric QCD.