8 research outputs found
Noncommutative Geometry: Fuzzy Spaces, the Groenewold-Moyal Plane
In this talk, we review the basics concepts of fuzzy physics and quantum
field theory on the Groenwald-Moyal Plane as examples of noncommutative spaces
in physics. We introduce the basic ideas, and discuss some important results in
these fields. In the end we outline some recent developments in the field.Comment: This is a contribution to the Proc. of the O'Raifeartaigh Symposium
on Non-Perturbative and Symmetry Methods in Field Theory (June 2006,
Budapest, Hungary), published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry:
Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA
Quantum Fields on Noncommutative Spacetimes: Theory and Phenomenology
In the present work we review the twisted field construction of quantum field
theory on noncommutative spacetimes based on twisted Poincar\'e invariance. We
present the latest development in the field, in particular the notion of
equivalence of such quantum field theories on a noncommutative spacetime, in
this regard we work out explicitly the inequivalence between twisted quantum
field theories on Moyal and Wick-Voros planes; the duality between deformations
of the multiplication map on the algebra of functions on spacetime
and coproduct deformations of the Poincar\'e-Hopf
algebra acting on~; the appearance of
a nonassociative product on when gauge fields are
also included in the picture. The last part of the manuscript is dedicated to
the phenomenology of noncommutative quantum field theories in the particular
approach adopted in this review. CPT violating processes, modification of
two-point temperature correlation function in CMB spectrum analysis and
Pauli-forbidden transition in are all effects which show up in
such a noncommutative setting. We review how they appear and in particular the
constraint we can infer from comparison between theoretical computations and
experimental bounds on such effects. The best bound we can get, coming from
Borexino experiment, is TeV for the energy scale of
noncommutativity, which corresponds to a length scale m.
This bound comes from a different model of spacetime deformation more adapted
to applications in atomic physics. It is thus model dependent even though
similar bounds are expected for the Moyal spacetime as well as argued
elsewhere
Quantum Fields on the Groenewold-Moyal Plane: C, P, T and CPT
We show that despite the inherent non-locality of quantum field theories on
the Groenewold-Moyal (GM) plane, one can find a class of , ,
and invariant theories. In particular, these are theories
without gauge fields or with just gauge fields and no matter fields. We also
show that in the presence of gauge fields, one can have a field theory where
the Hamiltonian is and invariant while the -matrix
violates and .
In non-abelian gauge theories with matter fields such as the electro-weak and
sectors of the standard model of particle physics, , ,
and the product of any pair of them are broken while
remains intact for the case . (Here , : coordinate functions,
constant.) When ,
it contributes to breaking also and . It is known that the
-matrix in a non-abelian theory depends on only through
. The -matrix is frame dependent. It breaks (the identity
component of the) Lorentz group. All the noncommutative effects vanish if the
scattering takes place in the center-of-mass frame, or any frame where
, but not otherwise. and are good symmetries of the theory in this special case.Comment: 18 pages, 1 figure, revised, 2 references adde
Discrete Time Evolution and Energy Nonconservation in Noncommutative Physics
Time-space noncommutativity leads to quantisation of time and energy
nonconservation when time is conjugate to a compact spatial direction like a
circle. In this context energy is conserved only modulo some fixed unit. Such a
possibility arises for example in theories with a compact extra dimension with
which time does not commute. The above results suggest striking
phenomenological consequences in extra dimensional theories and elsewhere. In
this paper we develop scattering theory for discrete time translations. It
enables the calculation of transition probabilities for energy nonconserving
processes and has a central role both in formal theory and phenomenology.
We can also consider space-space noncommutativity where one of the spatial
directions is a circle. That leads to the quantisation of the remaining spatial
direction and conservation of momentum in that direction only modulo some fixed
unit, as a simple adaptation of the results in this paper shows.Comment: 17 pages, LaTex; minor correction
Edge Currents in Non-commutative Chern-Simons Theory from a New Matrix Model
This paper discusses the formulation of the non-commutative Chern-Simons (CS)
theory where the spatial slice, an infinite strip, is a manifold with
boundaries. As standard star products are not correct for such manifolds, the
standard non-commutative CS theory is not also appropriate here. Instead we
formulate a new finite-dimensional matrix CS model as an approximation to the
CS theory on the strip. A work which has points of contact with ours is due to
Lizzi, Vitale and Zampini where the authors obtain a description for the fuzzy
disc. The gauge fields in our approach are operators supported on a subspace of
finite dimension N+\eta of the Hilbert space of eigenstates of a simple
harmonic oscillator with N, \eta \in Z^+ and N \neq 0. This oscillator is
associated with the underlying Moyal plane. The resultant matrix CS theory has
a fuzzy edge. It becomes the required sharp edge when N and \eta goes to
infinity in a suitable sense. The non-commutative CS theory on the strip is
defined by this limiting procedure. After performing the canonical constraint
analysis of the matrix theory, we find that there are edge observables in the
theory generating a Lie algebra with properties similar to that of a
non-abelian Kac-Moody algebra. Our study shows that there are (\eta+1)^2
abelian charges (observables) given by the matrix elements (\cal A_i)_{N-1 N-1}
and (\cal A_i)_{nm} (where n or m \geq N) of the gauge fields, that obey
certain standard canonical commutation relations. In addition, the theory
contains three unique non-abelian charges, localized near the N^th level. We
show that all non-abelian edge observables except these three can be
constructed from the abelian charges above. Using the results of this analysis
we discuss the large N and \eta limit.Comment: LaTeX, 16 pages and 2 figures. Comments added in sections 4 and 5. A
minor error corrected in section 4. Figures replaced for clarity. Typos
correcte
The Star Product on the Fuzzy Supersphere
The fuzzy supersphere is a finite-dimensional matrix
approximation to the supersphere incorporating supersymmetry
exactly. Here the star-product of functions on is obtained by
utilizing the OSp(2,1) coherent states. We check its graded commutative limit
to and extend it to fuzzy versions of sections of bundles using the
methods of [1]. A brief discussion of the geometric structure of our
star-product completes our work.Comment: 21 pages, LaTeX, new material added, minor errors correcte