Dirac eigenvalues as dynamical variables

DOI10.1007/3-540-46082-9_16MaRDI QIDQ4460339zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Landi

Publication date 18 May 2004

Published in Noncommutative Geometry and the Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9906044

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: We review some work done with C. Rovelli on the use of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a curved spacetime as dynamical variables, the main motivation coming from their invariance under the action of diffeomorphisms. The eigenvalues constitute an infinite set of ``observables for general relativity and can be taken as variables for an invariant description of the gravitational field dynamics.

Review text

\textit{A. H. Chamseddine} and \textit{A. Connes}'s work on a spectral description of fundamental interactions [Commun. Math. Phys. 186, No. 3, 731--750 (1997; Zbl 0894.58007); Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, No. 24, 4868--4871 (1996; Zbl 1020.46505)] has motivated the author to try to describe gravity by means of the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator. The central and important feature of this approach is that the theory is formulated in terms of diffeomorphism invariant observables. Another remarkable aspect of this spectral approach is that there is a physical cutoff and an elementary physical length in the action that does not break diffeomorphism invariance. The key problem left open here is a characterization of the constraints that a sequence of real numbers \(\lambda_{n}\)\ should satisfy in order to represent the spectrum of the Dirac operator of some geometry. The constraints on the \(\lambda_{n}\)'s, which should be contained in Connes's axioms for \(D\)\ in its axiomatic definition of a spectral triple [\textit{A. Connes}, Noncommutative geometry. Transl. from the French by Sterling Berberian. San Diego, CA: Academic Press (1994; Zbl 0818.46076)], are the core of the formulation of the gravitational theory explored here. This paper is largely a review of [\textit{G. Landi} and \textit{C. Rovelli}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, No. 16, 3051--3054 (1997; Zbl 1042.83509)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1027.00036].

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