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Challenges for describing unitary evolution in nontrivial geometries: pictures and representations

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Pith's one-line read In spacetimes of more than two dimensions, quantum evolution from one spatial slice to another generically cannot be described by a unitary operator on a fixed Hilbert space.

desk verdict A useful conceptual synthesis of the known nonunitarity obstruction in curved-space QFT, with a new local necessary condition that is honestly flagged as not sufficient; the value is in the packaging and concrete examples, not in a new no-go theorem. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.13351 v1 pith:VASTHFNE submitted 2025-07-17 hep-th gr-qc

Steven B. Giddings , Julie Perkins This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords unitaryinequivalentrepresentationscomplexstructureBogolubovtransformationHadamardconditionSchrödingerpicturecurvedspacetimequantumfieldtheorycanonicalcommutationrelationsmany-fingeredtime
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The reading

This paper argues that in spacetime dimensions D>2, quantum evolution from one spatial slice to another generically cannot be described by a unitary operator acting on a fixed Hilbert space. The obstruction comes from the infinite number of unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations, which are organized by the choice of a complex structure on the classical phase space. The paper shows that evolution naturally moves between equivalence classes of complex structures, so a standard Schrödinger picture with time-independent field operators does not exist in a general curved background. It then proposes a local short-distance condition on the modes—agreement of the associated τ_k to leading order at large k—that picks out the physical equivalence class, and relates this condition to the Hadamard behavior of the two-point function. If correct, this reframes how quantum states must be defined and evolved in curved spacetimes, with consequences for interacting fields and for quantum gravity.

What carries the argument

The central object is the complex structure J on the one-particle phase space of the scalar field: an automorphism with J²=-1 that is compatible with the symplectic form, which selects the positive/negative frequency splitting and thereby defines the Fock vacuum and the Hilbert-space representation. Two complex structures are declared equivalent, J_1 ≃_F J_2, when the Bogolubov transformation between their Fock spaces is Hilbert-Schmidt, i.e. ∑|B_{AB}|² is finite. The paper's local machinery, developed in Sec. 3.1, uses the foliation by spacelike slices and a local Lorentz frame near a point P: high-wavenumber positive-frequency modes of the physical complex structure have Cauchy data (3.7), leading to τ_k = i√q_P ω̂_k; a necessary condition for two slices' complex structures to be unitarily equivalent is that their τ_k agree to order $k^{0}$ at large k. This condition is then shown to be equivalent to vanishing of the O($k^{0}$) part of the Bogolubov coefficient and to suppression of non-Hadamard singularities in the two-point function.

What would settle it

One concrete check: in a smooth D=3 spacetime with compact spatial sections, evolve a Hadamard vacuum from an initial slice to a later slice and compute the Bogolubov transformation between the evolved complex structure and the local τ_k complex structure on the final slice. If the transformation is Hilbert-Schmidt even when the τ_k disagree at O($k^{0}$), the proposed necessary condition is false; if the two-point function develops non-Hadamard singularities under smooth evolution, the preservation assumption is false.

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Core claim

The central claim, stated in Sec. 2.3, is that the evolution from an initial slice Σ_i to a final slice Σ_f of a D>2 manifold M cannot be described in terms of a unitary operator acting on a fixed Hilbert space defined as a representation of the basic field algebra (2.11) on Σ; instead the equivalence class of the complex structure defining the representation is generically different on the two slices. The paper establishes this through a stationary-phase estimate of the Bogolubov coefficient B_{kk'} for a non-trivial slice of flat space: at large k, B_{kk'} ~ 1/$k^{{d/2}}$, so the sum ∑|B_{kk'}|² is logarithmically divergent for d≥2, blocking a Hilbert-Schmidt (unitarity-implementable) transformation. It then proposes a necessary local condition for two complex structures to lie in the same equivalence class: their τ_k of (3.10), which encode the induced metric and slicing near a point, must agree to leading order at large k. The paper shows that the same condition removes non-Hadamard singularities from the two-point function, connecting the representation-theoretic criterion to the Hadamard condition. Cosmic and black hole examples illustrate the failure of fixed-representation evolution and the conditions under which a Schrödinger picture can nonetheless be recovered.

Load-bearing premise

The argument rests on the assumption that the Hadamard condition is preserved under evolution for sufficiently smooth spacetimes, so the local τ_k condition actually tracks the physical representation along the foliation; the paper notes in Sec. 5.1 that the relevant continuity condition has yet to be established.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A standard Schrödinger picture with time-independent field operators does not exist on generic D>2 spacetimes; instead the relation between the basic observables and the annihilation/creation operators must depend on the embedding of the Cauchy slice.
  • Physical states must be defined through a slice-dependent equivalence class of complex structures; different generalized pictures can transfer different amounts of time evolution between operators and state, but a full Schrödinger picture is not generally available.
  • The local τ_k condition provides a candidate criterion for selecting the physical representation that does not require solving the equations of motion, which could extend to interacting theories in the ultraviolet limit where they become free.
  • For black holes, a stationary slicing permits a unitary Schrödinger-picture evolution of the Hawking state, while non-stationary slicings reintroduce the representation problem; for cosmology, a good initial complex structure evolves into the equivalence class of a good final one only if the Hadamard condition is preserved.
  • For dynamical quantum geometry, the representation depends on the quantum spatial metric, so the status of many-fingered time and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is called into question.

Reading between the lines

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

  • If the local τ_k condition is also sufficient for unitary equivalence (the paper proves only necessity), it would give a practical slice-by-slice prescription for constructing physical states in interacting theories, bypassing the intractable Heisenberg equations.
  • The D=2 exceptional case suggests that intuition from two-dimensional geometries, including string worldsheets, systematically understates the severity of the representation problem in four-dimensional quantum gravity.
  • A natural testable extension is to compute the Bogolubov transformation in explicit smooth D=3 spacetimes and check whether O(k^0) agreement of τ_k is both necessary and sufficient for Hilbert-Schmidt implementation of evolution.
  • If the equivalence class evolves in time, transition amplitudes in a path-integral formulation likely require specifying the slice-dependent representation at the boundaries; otherwise the amplitude may depend on an arbitrary choice of complex structure.
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Summary. This paper argues that in spacetime dimension D > 2, evolution of a free scalar field between two Cauchy slices cannot be described by a unitary operator acting on a fixed Hilbert space defined as a representation of the canonical commutation relations on a slice. The authors review the complex-structure formalism for Fock-space representations, reproduce the Torre–Varadarajan example in which a stationary-phase estimate yields B_{kk'} ~ 1/k^{d/2} and hence a logarithmically divergent sum |B|^2, and propose a local positive-frequency condition based on the ADM-induced frame. They show that agreement of the local quantity τ_k to leading order is necessary for two complex structures to be unitarily equivalent, and relate this to the Hadamard form of the two-point function. The ideas are illustrated in cosmological and black-hole settings, and the implications for interacting theories and quantum gravity are discussed.

Significance. If established, the paper's local criterion would give a practical, evolution-independent method for selecting the physical representation of the canonical commutation relations, which would be especially valuable for interacting theories where Heisenberg-picture dynamics is intractable. The paper is a clear synthesis of known results (notably Refs. [1–3,6]) and adds an explicit calculation of non-Hadamard singularities in 'bad' vacua, as well as a transparent discussion of the relationship between the local condition and the Hadamard condition. The authors are commendably explicit about the two open points: sufficiency of the local condition (Sec. 3.1) and the continuity condition needed for preservation of the Hadamard property (Sec. 5.1). The central negative claim is well supported by prior literature and a plausible estimate; the main weakness is that the positive proposal is not yet a theorem.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 3.1 (Eqs. (3.10)–(3.13)) and Sec. 5.1] The paper asserts that 'the physical equivalence class is determined by the complex structure (3.10)' and that the local condition 'specifies a local (class of) Fock space constructions... related by unitary transformations satisfying the Hilbert-Schmidt condition.' However, the derivation establishes only a necessary condition: agreement of τ_k to leading order is required for equivalence, and the authors explicitly defer sufficiency ('We leave the careful investigation of sufficiency for equivalence... for future work'). The flat-space nontrivial-slice example shows that the Hilbert-Schmidt property is controlled by global 1/k^{d/2} suppressions that are not visible in the local τ_k comparison alone, so two complex structures with identical leading τ_k could conceivably be inequivalent. Please either prove sufficiency for a representative class of cases or consistently present the local criterion as a necessary condition and a conjecture, rather than a determination, throughout the abstract, Section 3.1, and Section 5.1.
  2. [Sec. 4.2 and Sec. 5.1] The black-hole discussion concludes that a standard Schrödinger picture exists on stationary slices, based on the expectation that the Hadamard condition is preserved under evolution. This relies on Refs. [34,35] and, as the authors state, 'One remaining question is to establish the relevant continuity condition.' Since this continuity condition is unproven, the statement that 'Such modes are then expected to yield a Schrödinger picture of the standard form' (Sec. 4.2) is conditional. Please supply a proof or a precise reference for the needed continuity condition for the relevant class of geometries, or explicitly label the conclusion as a conjecture in the abstract and conclusions.
  3. [Sec. 3.2 (Eqs. (3.19)–(3.26))] The claimed connection between the local O(k^0) condition and Hadamard behavior is demonstrated explicitly only in the isotropic case (3.23). For a general slice metric, the authors note that the singular structure is 'difficult to exhibit' because of rotational non-invariance (Eq. (3.22)). The conclusion that the local condition eliminates non-Hadamard singularities is central to the paper's general proposal, but as written it is an extrapolation from the isotropic example. Please extend the analysis to general slice metrics, or temper the claim so that it is explicitly restricted to the cases where it has been checked.
minor comments (8)
  1. [Sec. 3.1, after Eq. (3.10)] The phrase 'and and ¯τ_k' contains a duplicated 'and'; please remove the repetition.
  2. [Sec. 4.1] 'FLR W spacetime' should read 'FLRW spacetime'.
  3. [Sec. 4.1] 'the the preceding issues' contains a duplicated 'the'.
  4. [Sec. 3.1] 'one might alternately start with the point P' should use 'alternatively' rather than 'alternately'.
  5. [References] Reference [20] is an unpublished note available only via a URL; please cite a published treatment of bosonic Bogoliubov transformations instead.
  6. [Eq. (3.26) and similar] The notation ΔX_i^2 is ambiguous; consider writing (ΔX_i)^2 or |ΔX|^2 for clarity.
  7. [Abstract] The statement that the difficulty 'in particular will arise for interacting theories in time-dependent spacetimes' is stated as a direct consequence, whereas the body (Sec. 5.2) offers only an expectation for asymptotically free theories; please qualify this sentence.
  8. [Sec. 2.3] Since the stationary-phase estimate controls the leading UV behavior, a sentence indicating that subleading corrections cannot remove the logarithmic divergence unless the coefficient C in (2.34) vanishes (the D=2 exception) would help address concerns about rigor.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central nonunitarity claim is rederived from explicit Bogoliubov estimates, and the self-citations are contextual rather than load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is self-contained against external benchmarks. Section 2.3 reproduces the Torre–Varadarajan argument by computing the Bogoliubov coefficient (2.34) and estimating B_kk' ~ 1/k^{d/2} by stationary phase, leading to the logarithmic divergence in (2.36). This is a rederivation of an external result, not a fit or a renaming. Section 3.1 derives a necessary local condition from the explicit Bogoliubov coefficients (3.12) and explicitly defers the question of sufficiency, which is an acknowledged limitation rather than a circular step. Section 3.2 independently computes the two-point function of the 'bad' vacuum and exhibits non-Hadamard singularities, thereby connecting the local complex-structure condition to Hadamard behavior rather than assuming that connection. The black-hole discussion in Section 4.2 cites the authors' prior work [12-14], but only for context, for expectations, and for previously discussed mode criteria; the paper states that an explicit construction of the relevant regular modes is still lacking and that the argument relies on an assumption about preservation of the Hadamard condition under evolution. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors to forbid alternatives, and no known empirical pattern is merely relabeled. The deferred items, such as the continuity condition noted in Section 5.1, are correctness risks but not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard mathematical theorems (Shale's Hilbert-Schmidt criterion), on the physical-state assumption that physical states are Hadamard, and on the paper's own proposal that the local positive-frequency condition in a local Lorentz frame picks out the physical equivalence class. No numbers are fitted to data; geometric inputs such as masses, scale factors, and volumes are treated as given, and the local volume cutoff is a regulator whose value does not affect the leading UV condition.

assumptions (6)
  • standard math The canonical commutation relations have infinitely many unitarily inequivalent Fock representations, and two Fock representations are unitarily equivalent iff the Bogoliubov transformation is Hilbert-Schmidt (Shale's theorem).
    Invoked in Sec. 2.2 to define equivalence classes of complex structures; this is standard mathematical physics.
  • domain assumption Physical states in QFT in curved spacetime must satisfy the Hadamard condition on the two-point function.
    Taken as the physical-state criterion from Refs. [8,9]; the paper aims to relate its local condition to this criterion rather than derive it.
  • standard math Hadamard behavior is preserved under evolution for sufficiently smooth spacetimes, and can be extended by deformation arguments.
    Used in Secs. 3.2 and 4.2 to argue the local condition persists along the foliation; cites Refs. [34,35]. The paper notes the continuity condition is not fully established.
  • domain assumption In a sufficiently small neighborhood of a point P, the spacetime is approximately flat, and high-energy modes can be approximated by local plane waves (3.3).
    Basis of the local analysis in Sec. 3.1; standard use of local Lorentz frames, but the paper acknowledges the treatment is not fully rigorous.
  • domain assumption Spatial sections are taken compact (e.g., periodic identifications) to avoid infrared issues.
    Used throughout to make mode sums discrete; IR issues are set aside by this choice, stated in Sec. 2.1 and in the examples.
  • ad hoc to paper The local positive-frequency condition with respect to the ADM-induced frame is the correct definition of the physical equivalence class.
    This is the paper's proposed criterion (Sec. 3.1, Eq. (3.10)); it is motivated but only shown to be necessary and equivalent to Hadamard in leading order.

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Description of evolution between spatial slices in a general spacetime suffers from a significant difficulty: the states on the slices, in a given basis, are not related by a unitary transformation. This problem, which occurs in spacetime dimensions above two, is directly related to the infinite number of inequivalent representations of the canonical commutators, and in particular will arise for interacting theories in time-dependent spacetimes. We connect different facets of this issue, and discuss its possible resolution. It is directly related to discussions of failure of a standard Schr\"odinger picture of evolution, and of evolution via "many-fingered time." One requires a condition specifying a physical unitary equivalence class of states; in general this equivalence class evolves with time, and an important question is how it is determined. One approach to this in free theories is by imposing a Hadamard condition on the two point function. We explore a different approach, which also may be helpful for interacting theories, analyzing the structure of the state in a local limit, and relate these approaches. We also elucidate the non-Hadamard behavior of unphysical vacua, and discuss concrete examples of these approaches involving cosmological and black hole evolution. The issues are extended in the context of quantum dynamical geometry, and raise important questions for the proper description of the wavefunction of the universe and for the role of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.

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