Noncommutative geometric spaces with boundary: spectral action (Q617968)

The authors investigate whether the Connes's spectral triple paradigm for noncommutative geometry can be recast for noncommutative spaces with boundary. In particular they evaluate the spectral action corresponding to the noncommutative space of the standard model and show that the Einstein-Hilbert action gets modified by the addition of the extrinsic curvature term with the right sign and coefficient necessary for consistency of the Hamiltonian. They also include effects due to the addition of a dilation field. The paper after a concise Introduction, splits into five more sections and two appendices. 2. Riemannian manifold with boundary. 3. Spectral action for noncommutative spaces with boundary. 4. Spectral action for Riemannian manifolds with boundary. 6. Spectral action in presence of a dilation. 7. Appendix 1: The case of the disk. 8. Appendix 2: Sign of boundary term in Einstein action. Reviewer's remark: The reviewer would like to emphasize that the mathematical model considered in this paper is far to be an unification of fundamental fields of particle physics with the gravitation. In fact this unification can be made at quantum level only, since the fundamental fields, encoding the standard model, concern quantum physics, and unification with gravitation must necessarily be a reinterpretation of gravitation at quantum level. Instead, in this paper fundamental fields are interpreted on a \(4\)-dimensional Riemannian manifold. On the other hand, unification of fundamental forces is a subject for very high energies and strong interactions. There to talk about gravitation like an usual Riemannian field is to make sense out of non-sense. Unification problems of fundamental physical forces can be solved in the geometric framework of quantum super PDE's, which makes it possible to understand that quantum gravitation and strong force are the same thing. With respect to the main purpose of this paper, i.e., reconciliation of spectral triple and noncommutative spaces with boundary, it may be useful to underline that in the geometric theory of quantum super PDE's boundary value problems find their natural place in that theory as an algebraic topologic theory for integral bordism groups of quantum PDE's. Nowadays, the actual LHC experiments become to show that a simple standard model for high energy physics is far to be a good approximation. More realistic models are graviton-quark-gluon plasmas, that can be encoded by quantum super Yang-Mills PDE's [see e.g. \textit{Quantum extended crystal super PDE's}, \url{arXiv:0906.1363}, and references therein].