Examples of gauged Laplacians on noncommutative spaces (Q1033875)

This paper reports on some companion papers by the same author and some other co-workers, devoted to gauged Laplacian operators defined on some noncommutative manifolds (see in References). In particular these noncommutative manifolds are deformations of usual commutative ones, according to a philosophy that wants to interpret ``quantum structures'' as deformed of homonymous classical ones. It presents two (classes of) examples of gauged Laplacian operators. The first one is a model of spin-Hall effect on a noncommutative four-sphere \(S_{\theta}^{4}\) with isospin degrees of freedom, coming from a noncommutative instanton, and invariant under the quantum group SO\(_{\theta}(5)\). The second one, a Hall effect on a quantum 2-dimensional sphere \(S_q^{2}\), describes `excitations moving on the quantum sphere' in the field of a magnetic monopole with symmetry coming from the quantum group SU\(_q(2)\). For both models, ample symmetries provide a complete diagonalization. Remark. The author claims in the Introduction, referring to the subject studied in the paper, that this ``could be relevant for constructing important models both in physics and mathematics''. With this respect, let us remark that there is a very large literature that calls \textit{quantum structures} and \textit{quantum calculus}, deformations of classical ones, where the deformation-parameter \(q\) is in some sense identified with a ``Planck constant'' that for \(q\to0\) reproduces the classical situation. The more serious motivation to accredit this point of view is that some quantizations of some mechanical systems can be really identified with deformations (see, e.g. Kac, Kostant, Lichnerowicz, Maslov, Moyal, Soureau,\dots). However, the following papers of the reviewer [1] ``Quantum geometry of PDE's'', Rep. Math. Phys. 30, No. 3, 273--352 (1991). [2] Quantized partial differential equations. Singapore: World Scientific (2004; Zbl 1067.58022). [3] ``(Co)bordism groups in quantum super PDE's. III. Quantum super Yang-Mills equations'', Nonlinear Anal., Real World Appl. 8, No.~2, 447--479 (2007; Zbl 1152.58311). proved that quantizations of PDE's are, in general, very more complex procedures than simple deformations. Furthermore, nowadays it becomes evident that in order to describe quantum phenomena it necessitates to consider more general noncommutative frameworks.