Bound state energies and phase shifts of a non-commutative well

Non-commutative quantum mechanics can be viewed as a quantum system represented in the space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators acting on non-commutative configuration space. Within this framework an unambiguous definition can be given for the non-commutative well. Using this approach we compute the bound state energies, phase shifts and scattering cross sections of the non- commutative well. As expected the results are very close to the commutative results when the well is large or the non-commutative parameter is small. However, the convergence is not uniform and phase shifts at certain energies exhibit a much stronger then expected dependence on the non-commutative parameter even at small values.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure

Non-commutative Hilbert modular symbols

The main goal of this paper is to construct non-commutative Hilbert modular symbols. However, we also construct commutative Hilbert modular symbols. Both the commutative and the non-commutative Hilbert modular symbols are generalizations of Manin's classical and non-commutative modular symbols. We prove that many cases of (non-)commutative Hilbert modular symbols are periods in the sense on Kontsevich-Zagier. Hecke operators act naturally on them. Manin defines the non-commutative modilar symbol in terms of iterated path integrals. In order to define non-commutative Hilbert modular symbols, we use a generalization of iterated path integrals to higher dimensions, which we call iterated integrals on membranes. Manin examines similarities between non-commutative modular symbol and multiple zeta values both in terms of infinite series and in terms of iterated path integrals. Here we examine similarities in the formulas for non-commutative Hilbert modular symbol and multiple Dedekind zeta values, recently defined by the author, both in terms of infinite series and in terms of iterated integrals on membranes.Comment: 50 pages, 5 figures, substantial improvement of the article arXiv:math/0611955 [math.NT], the portions compared to the previous version are: Hecke operators, periods and some categorical construction

Commutative Quaternion Matrices

In this study, we introduce the concept of commutative quaternions and commutative quaternion matrices. Firstly, we give some properties of commutative quaternions and their Hamilton matrices. After that we investigate commutative quaternion matrices using properties of complex matrices. Then we define the complex adjoint matrix of commutative quaternion matrices and give some of their properties

Duality and Non-Commutative Gauge Theory

We study the generalization of S-duality to non-commutative gauge theories. For rank one theories, we obtain the leading terms of the dual theory by Legendre transforming the Lagrangian of the non-commutative theory expressed in terms of a commutative gauge field. The dual description is weakly coupled when the original theory is strongly coupled if we appropriately scale the non-commutativity parameter. However, the dual theory appears to be non-commutative in space-time when the original theory is non-commutative in space. This suggests that locality in time for non-commutative theories is an artifact of perturbation theory.Comment: 7 pages, harvmac; a typo fixe