Fuzzy hyperspheres via confining potentials and energy cutoffs

Abstract: We simplify and complete the construction of fully

O (D)

-equivariant fuzzy spheres

S_{L}^{d}

, for all dimensions

d e q u i v D - 1

, initiated in [G. Fiore, F. Pisacane, J. Geom. Phys. 132 (2018), 423]. This is based on imposing a suitable energy cutoff on a quantum particle in

m a t h b b R^{D}

in a confining potential well

V (r)

with a very sharp minimum on the sphere of radius

r = 1

; the cutoff and the depth of the well diverge with

L i n m a t h b b N

. As a result, the noncommutative Cartesian coordinates

o v e r l i n e x^{i}

generate the whole algebra of observables

A_{L}

on the Hilbert space

H_{L}

;

H_{L}

can be recovered applying polynomials in the

o v e r l i n e x^{i}

to any of its elements. The commutators of the

o v e r l i n e x^{i}

are proportional to the angular momentum components, as in Snyder noncommutative spaces.

H_{L}

, as carrier space of a reducible representation of

O (D)

, is isomorphic to the space of harmonic homogeneous polynomials of degree

L

in the Cartesian coordinates of (commutative)

m a t h b b R^{D + 1}

, which carries an irreducible representation

of

O (D + 1) s u p s e t O (D)

. Moreover,

A_{L}

is isomorphic to

. We resp. interpret

{H_{L}}_{L i n m a t h b b N}

,

{A_{L}}_{L i n m a t h b b N}

as fuzzy deformations of the space

H_{s} := {c a l L}^{2} (S^{d})

of (square integrable) functions on

S^{d}

and of the associated algebra

A_{s}

of observables, because they resp. go to

H_{s}, A_{s}

as

L

diverges (with

h b a r

fixed). With suitable

h b a r = h b a r (L) s t a c k r e l L o i n f t y l o n g r i g h t a r r o w 0

, in the same limit

A_{L}

goes to the (algebra of functions on the) Poisson manifold

T^{*} S^{d}

; more formally,

{A_{L}}_{L i n m a t h b b N}

yields a fuzzy quantization of a coadjoint orbit of

O (D + 1)

that goes to the classical phase space

T^{*} S^{d}

.

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