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Local description of S-matrix in quantum field theory in curved spacetime using Riemann-normal coordinate

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Pith's one-line read The paper constructs a local S-matrix in curved spacetime using Riemann-normal coordinates, so scattering amplitudes acquire curvature corrections that can probe local geometry.

desk verdict A well-assembled attempt at a local S-matrix in curved spacetime that fails at its load-bearing assumption: the external plane-wave states do not solve the curved Klein-Gordon equation. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.06717 v2 pith:LCWWZU7T submitted 2019-08-19 hep-th gr-qc

Susobhan Mandal , Subhashish Banerjee This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

Global S-matrix constructions fail in generic curved spacetimes because asymptotic in/out states are not available. This paper claims that a local S-matrix can nevertheless be defined in any geodesic patch by using Riemann-normal coordinates around the scattering point, which makes the metric locally flat to leading order and lets the flat-space machinery of LSZ reduction, functional integrals, and momentum-space propagators be applied patchwise. The computed amplitudes and cross-sections acquire curvature-dependent corrections, starting with terms built from the Ricci scalar, and the paper argues these corrections make scattering a local probe of the geometry. A sympathetic reading: if correct, this yields a practical local substitute for a global S-matrix, with flat-spacetime results recovered in the zero-curvature limit.

What carries the argument

Riemann-normal coordinates: coordinates on a patch around a chosen origin in which geodesics through the origin are straight tangent vectors z^mu, the metric takes the form g_mu_nu = eta_mu_nu + O($z^{2}$), and Christoffel symbols vanish at the origin. The paper's engine is the RNC expansion of the metric and the d'Alembertian operator, which turns the curved-space wave operator into the flat d'Alembertian plus explicit curvature terms; solving this order by order in momentum space gives the curvature-corrected propagator. A local Fourier transform built from Synge's world function $\sigma$(x,x') makes tangent-space momenta the correct variables, so flat-space Feynman rules can be applied patchwise. The same local momentum-space structure produces the deformed translation generators that explain the non-conserving S-matrix pieces.

What would settle it

Take a concrete curved spacetime (e.g. de Sitter or Schwarzschild), solve the full Klein-Gordon equation (3.2) on the geodesic patch, and compute the LSZ amplitude (3.10) using those exact modes; if the result differs from the paper's plane-wave RNC amplitude at first order in the curvature, the local state-space assumption is the point of failure. Concretely, the plane waves fail to satisfy the curved Klein-Gordon equation beyond zeroth order in the RNC expansion, so the mismatch is directly visible.

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Core claim

The central claim is that the S-matrix in a general curved spacetime is best understood locally: at each point one builds a Riemann-normal coordinate patch, assumes free one-particle states are plane waves $e^{{ik.z}}$ with the flat dispersion relation omega_k = $\sqrt$($k^{2}$ + $m^{2}$), and derives the Feynman propagator in momentum space as \bar G(k)=1/($k^{2}$+$m^{2}$) plus curvature corrections, the first nontrivial one being -(xi-1/6)R/($k^{2}$+$m^{2}$)^2 for a non-minimally coupled scalar. Using LSZ reduction and the functional-integral generating functional, the paper obtains explicit scattering amplitudes for 3->3 $phi^{4}$, 2->2 $phi^{3}$, nucleon-nucleon, and nucleon-meson processes. These amplitudes contain both a 4-momentum-conserving piece whose coefficient carries curvature corrections and non-conserving pieces proportional to derivatives of delta functions with curvature-dependent coefficients; the paper derives the non-conserving pieces from the deformation of translation symmetry by curvature. It concludes that the local S-matrix is a local observable varying smoothly over the manifold, that unitarity holds as in flat spacetime, and that in the vanishing-curvature limit all results reduce to the familiar Minkowski ones.

Load-bearing premise

The construction assumes that inside the Riemann-normal patch the physical one-particle states are exactly the flat plane waves $e^{{ik.z}}$ with Minkowski dispersion omega_k = $\sqrt$($k^{2}$ + $m^{2}$), even though the propagator is built from the full curved d'Alembertian; those plane waves are not exact solutions of the curved wave equation.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the construction is correct, scattering experiments performed in a small patch can read off local curvature: the leading correction to cross-sections is controlled by the Ricci scalar at the scattering point, so measurements at different points see a smoothly varying geometry.
  • For de Sitter or anti-de Sitter backgrounds the sign and magnitude of the cosmological constant enters the cross-section; a null FRW cosmology would instead show time-dependent signatures from the scale factor.
  • Nucleon-nucleon scattering in the heavy-meson or massless-meson limits produces curvature-enhanced IR and small-angle singularities with characteristic angular factors, giving concrete signatures to look for.
  • Effective couplings of hadronic theories become curvature-dependent at one loop, implying that running couplings and renormalization-group flow vary from point to point.
  • No global S-matrix is needed: local amplitudes suffice to recover flat-space results continuously in the zero-curvature limit.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: the plane-wave state assumption is the part most likely to need modification at higher curvature orders; replacing e^{ik.z} with the exact solutions of the curved Klein-Gordon equation inside the patch would test whether the leading amplitude corrections survive.
  • Editorial inference: the same RNC expansion could define local versions of other non-local observables, such as the propagator's spectral representation or local vertex functions, yielding a more general dictionary between curved and flat quantities.
  • Editorial inference: the non-conserving terms behave like momentum exchange with the background; one could ask whether they satisfy a local Ward identity generated by the deformed charges of Section 8.2, which the paper does not write down explicitly.
  • Editorial inference: since analyticity is left open, a natural next check is whether the curvature-corrected local amplitude retains a dispersion relation in the local momentum variables.
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3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a local construction of the S-matrix for quantum field theory in a general curved spacetime, using Riemann-normal coordinates (RNC) around a chosen origin. It derives an LSZ-type reduction formula (Eq. (3.10)) and a functional-integral version (Eq. (4.12)), expands the Feynman propagator in momentum space with RNC using Bunch-Parker techniques (Sec. 5.4), and then takes the external one-particle states to be flat plane waves e^{ik.z} with the flat dispersion relation (Sec. 6.2). On this basis it computes amplitudes and cross-sections for phi^4, phi^3, and nucleon-meson scattering (Secs. 7.2-7.5), obtaining curvature-dependent corrections and momentum-nonconserving pieces. The paper also discusses deformed translation symmetries in the patch and argues that the local S-matrix can probe features of the background geometry (Secs. 8-9).

Significance. If the construction were valid, it would provide a tractable local analogue of the flat-space S-matrix in curved spacetime and a practical route to curvature-dependent corrections to scattering observables. The paper assembles several standard ingredients: the LSZ and functional-integral formulations, RNC expansions of the metric, and the Bunch-Parker momentum-space propagator, and it explicitly checks the flat-spacetime limit of the propagator terms. No parameters are fitted to data, so the curvature dependence is a direct consequence of the stated ansatz rather than a fitting artifact. However, the central derivation is invalid as it stands because the external mode functions are not solutions of the curved Klein-Gordon equation used in the LSZ reduction; the curvature-dependent amplitudes in Sec. 7 are therefore not S-matrix elements of the curved-spacetime theory. A substantially revised treatment of the external states would be needed before the quantitative claims can be assessed.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 6.2; Eqs. (3.7)-(3.10)] The LSZ reduction formula (3.10) is derived under the assumption that each mode f_i satisfies the curved Klein-Gordon equation (□_g - m^2 - ξR) f_i = 0; this equation is used in the step from (3.7) to (3.8). The modes adopted in Sec. 6.2, f_k(z)=e^{ik.z} with ω_k = sqrt(k^2+m^2), do not satisfy it. With the RNC expansion in (5.17), (□_g - m^2 - ξR) e^{ik.z} contains nonvanishing terms of order R z^α k_α and R z^α z^β k_α k_β even on shell. The assertion in Sec. 6.2 that this 'can be checked from Eq. (5.19)' is not a valid check, because Eq. (5.19) is the Green's-function equation in a conformally rescaled variable, not the mode equation. Consequently Eq. (3.10) is not an identity for these modes, and the amplitudes in Secs. 7.1-7.5 are not LSZ S-matrix elements of the curved-spacetime theory.
  2. [Secs. 6.2 and 7.2; Eq. (7.2)] Even if the plane-wave ansatz were intended as the zeroth-order term of a curvature expansion, the calculation is carried out at inconsistent orders: the propagator is corrected through O(R) terms, as in Eq. (7.2), while the external modes are kept at zeroth order. A first-order correction to f_k obtained from (3.2) in RNC would contribute at the same order as the a_{αβ} term in the propagator; those contributions are absent from (7.9), (7.18), and (7.23). The displayed curvature corrections are therefore not the complete O(R) amplitudes, and a controlled expansion requires either deriving the corrected modes or an estimate of their contribution.
  3. [Sec. 7.2, Eqs. (7.9)-(7.10); Sec. 7.3, Eq. (7.18)] The 'non-conservative' pieces are distributions of the form (1/k^2) δ^(4)(k) and derivatives of δ^(4)(k) evaluated at k equal to the combination of external momenta. As written they are ill-defined without a wave-packet smearing prescription, and no such prescription is supplied. Because these terms arise only from the plane-wave LSZ reduction that is invalidated by the first major comment, they cannot support the claim that momentum non-conservation in the local S-matrix probes the background curvature.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Eq. (5.19)] The second term on the left-hand side reads '-[m^2 + (ξ - 1/6)] \bar G'; it should presumably be '-(m^2 + (ξ - 1/6)R) \bar G'.
  2. [Sec. 5.4, Eqs. (5.28) and (5.31)] Several displayed terms have inconsistent or dangling indices (e.g., R^ν_{αβ;} and R^ν_{α;β}), which makes the contraction structure hard to verify.
  3. [Eqs. (7.11)-(7.12)] Identities such as x^2 ∂_α ∂_β δ^(4)(x) = 2η_{αβ} δ^(4)(x) are distributional statements that hold only under integration; the text presents them as pointwise relations and should state the integrated form.
  4. [Sec. 7.2, after Eq. (7.10)] The factor χ is introduced but its numerical value is never computed, although it multiplies the quadratic curvature term in the quoted amplitude.
  5. [Sec. 9] The paragraph on black-hole spacetimes is qualitative; no amplitude or cross-section involving the Riemann tensor is actually computed, so the claim that black-hole geometry can be probed by this method is not demonstrated in the manuscript.

Circularity Check

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Curvature-dependent amplitudes are flat plane-wave contractions of the RNC propagator; the plane-wave 'basis of solutions' is asserted, so the S-matrix results are built into the state-space ansatz.

  1. self definitional [Sec. 6.2, Eqs. (6.15)-(6.16); used in Sec. 7.1, Eq. (7.1)]
    "Therefore, in a scattering amplitude calculation, the basis constructed from the solutions of d'Alembertian operator in RNC coordinate, will become {fk(z) = eik.z, f∗k(z) = e−ik.z} which can be checked from eqn. (5.19). Dispersion of physical particle states or on-shell dispersion relation is same as in flat spacetime ωk = sqrt(⃗k2 + m2), because it trivially matches with flat spacetime result in vanishing curvature limit."

    Eq. (5.19) is the Green's-function equation, with curvature terms -(1/3)R^ν_α z^α ∂_ν + (1/3)R^{μν}_{αβ} z^α z^β ∂_μ∂_ν + ... that do not annihilate e^{ik.z}; e^{ik.z} only solves the leading η^{μν}∂_μ∂_ν - m^2 part. The LSZ reduction, Eq. (3.10)/(4.12), requires each f_i to satisfy (□_g - m^2 - ξR)f_i = 0. Declaring the basis to be e^{ik.z} with flat dispersion makes Eq. (7.1) a flat Fourier transform of the curvature-corrected vertex V. The curvature-dependent and momentum-nonconserving terms in Eqs. (7.9)-(7.10) and the R-corrected cross-sections in Sec. 7.4 are direct consequences of this plane-wave ansatz plus the RNC propagator, so the central result is built into the input state-space choice.

  2. other [Sec. 6.1, Eqs. (6.12)-(6.14)]
    "What makes RNC so special is that, in eqn. (6.12) √−g(x′) = 1. Integration is being done over momentum vectors defined over tangent space at origin x′ and reduction of σμ′ to tangent vectors over same tangent space at origin x′ is denoted by zμ. Therefore, it mimics the flat spacetime Fourier transformation procedure with the results (6.12), (6.14) which have been used in section (5.4) to derive Green's function in momentum space."

    Eq. (6.13) contains g^{μρ}(x) inside the integral, while Eq. (6.14) replaces it by the flat metric using only X^{μ'ν'}(x') = η^{μ'ν'} at the origin. This 'mimics flat spacetime' at all points of the patch, not just at x'. The flat d'Alembertian result is therefore assumed, and it is what licenses the plane-wave modes and flat dispersion in Sec. 6.2. The claimed local S-matrix is thus the flat-ansatz Fourier representation restated in RNC notation, rather than a result derived from the curved mode equation.

full rationale

The paper contains no fitted parameters and no self-citation chain: the RNC Green's-function expansion is imported from Bunch and Parker [39], so this is not a fitting exercise. However, the central S-matrix construction is circular in a definitional sense. The external states are declared to be flat plane waves with flat dispersion (Sec. 6.2), even though the LSZ reductions in Eqs. (3.10) and (4.12) require modes solving the curved Klein-Gordon equation (□_g - m^2 - ξR)f_i = 0. The scattering amplitude in Eq. (7.1) is then literally the flat Fourier transform of the curvature-corrected vertex function V, so the curvature-dependent amplitudes, the non-conserving derivative-of-delta terms, and the R-corrected cross-sections all follow by construction from the plane-wave state-space ansatz plus the imported RNC propagator. The promised check 'which can be checked from eqn. (5.19)' conflates the Green's-function equation with the mode equation. Because the predicted curvature signals are consequences of the input ansatz rather than of a derived curved-space mode dynamics, the central claims are partially circular.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced; the local S-matrix is a mathematical construction, not a particle, force, symmetry, or dimension. The main burdens are the flat-mode ansatz and the domain assumptions listed above.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption A local patch exists around the origin x' in which no two geodesics intersect and Riemann-normal coordinates are valid up to the boundary.
    Sec 5.1 and Sec 6.3 restrict the construction to such a patch; beyond it the van Vleck-Morette determinant diverges or geodesics focus.
  • domain assumption The interaction time scale is much smaller than the time coordinate of the space-like hypersurfaces bounding the patch, so in and out states can be defined locally.
    Sec 1 and Sec 6.3 state this; without it the free-state boundary conditions on the patch are not justified.
  • ad hoc to paper Free field modes in the patch are flat plane waves e^{ik.z} with flat dispersion omega_k = sqrt(k^2 + m^2).
    Sec 6.2, eq (6.16): the paper says the dispersion trivially matches the flat-spacetime result in the vanishing curvature limit; the modes are not solutions of the full curved d'Alembertian.
  • standard math The Bunch-Parker Green's function equation (5.19) with order-by-order curvature expansion gives the interacting propagator in the local S-matrix.
    Eq (5.19) is taken from ref [39] and is used to compute all amplitudes; the paper does not prove it but treats it as an external benchmark.
  • domain assumption Asymptotic completeness holds locally through a map from the tangent space at the origin to a Hilbert space.
    Sec 6.2 defines local particle states this way; this is essential for interpreting the S-matrix elements as transition amplitudes.

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The success of the S-matrix in quantum field theory in Minkowski spacetime naturally demands the extension of the construction of the S-matrix in a general curved spacetime in a covariant manner. However, it is well-known that a global description of the S-matrix may not exist in an arbitrary curved spacetime. Here, we give a local construction of S-matrix in quantum field theory in curved spacetime using Riemann-normal coordinates which mimics the methods, generally used in Minkowski spacetime. Using this construction, the scattering amplitudes and cross-sections of some scattering processes are computed in a generic curved spacetime. Further, it is also shown that these observables can be used to probe features of curved spacetime as these local observables carry curvature-dependent corrections. Moreover, the compatibility of the local construction of the S-matrix with the spacetime symmetries is also discussed in detail.

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