FUZZY NAMBU–GOLDSTONE PHYSICS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03017440zbMATH Open1080.81534arXivhep-th/0212133OpenAlexW3099621426MaRDI QIDQ3370208FDOQ3370208

Authors: G. Immirzi, A. P. Balachandran 

Publication date: 7 February 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In spacetime dimensions larger than 2, whenever a global symmetry G is spontaneously broken to a subgroup H, and G and H are Lie groups, there are Nambu-Goldstone modes described by fields with values in G/H. In two-dimensional spacetimes as well, models where fields take values in G/H are of considerable interest even though in that case there is no spontaneous breaking of continuous symmetries. We consider such models when the world sheet is a two-sphere and describe their fuzzy analogues for G=SU(N+1), H=S(U(N-1)xU(1)) ~ U(N) and G/H=CP^N. More generally our methods give fuzzy versions of continuum models on S^2 when the target spaces are Grassmannians and flag manifolds described by (N+1)x(N+1) projectors of rank =< (N+1)/2. These fuzzy models are finite-dimensional matrix models which nevertheless retain all the essential continuum topological features like solitonic sectors. They seem well-suited for numerical work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212133

zbMATH Keywords

noncommutative geometrysigma modelsmonopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75)

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• \(O(3)\) sigma model with Hopf term on fuzzy sphere
• Emergent fuzzy geometry and fuzzy physics in four dimensions

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