Dirichlet branes and a cohomological definition of time flow

zbMATH Open1147.53071arXiv0712.1961MaRDI QIDQ3530003FDOQ3530003

Pedro Fernández de Córdoba, J. M. Isidro

Publication date: 14 October 2008

Abstract: Dirichlet branes are objects whose transverse coordinates in space are matrix-valued functions. This leads to considering a matrix algebra or, more generally, a Lie algebra, as the classical phase space of a certain dynamics where the multiplication of coordinates, being given by matrix multiplication, is nonabelian. Further quantising this dynamics by means of a star-product introduces noncommutativity (besides nonabelianity) as a quantum h-deformation. The algebra of functions on a standard Poisson manifold is replaced with the universal enveloping algebra of the given Lie algebra. We define generalised Poisson brackets on this universal enveloping algebra, examine their properties, and conclude that they provide a natural framework for dynamical setups (such as coincident Dirichlet branes) where coordinates are matrix-valued, rather than number-valued, functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1961

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomologyLie algebraDirichlet branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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