DIFFEOMORPHISM GROUPS AND CURRENT ALGEBRAS: CONFIGURATION SPACE ANALYSIS IN QUANTUM THEORY

Abstract

The constuction of models of non-relativistic quantum fields via current algebra representations is presented using a natural differential geometry of the configuration space Γ of particles, the corresponding classical Dirichlet operator associated with a Poisson measure on Γ, being the free Hamiltonian. The case with interactions is also discussed together with its relation to the problem of unitary representations of the diffeomorphism group on ℝd.