Existence of Local Covariant Time Ordered Products of Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime
Stefan Hollands, Robert M. Wald
November 30, 2001
We establish the existence of local, covariant time ordered products of local
Wick polynomials for a free scalar field in curved spacetime. Our time ordered
products satisfy all of the hypotheses of our previous uniqueness theorem, so
our construction essentially completes the analysis of the existence,
uniqueness and renormalizability of the perturbative expansion for nonlinear
quantum field theories in curved spacetime. As a byproduct of our analysis, we
derive a scaling expansion of the time ordered products about the total
diagonal that expresses them as a sum of products of polynomials in the
curvature times Lorentz invariant distributions, plus a remainder term of
arbitrary low scaling degree.
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