A Chern-Simons action for noncommutative spaces in general with the example \(\mathrm{SU}_q(2)\) (Q470335)

By means of the local index theorem proven by \textit{A. Connes} and \textit{H. Moscovici} [Geom. Funct. Anal. 5, No. 2, 174--243 (1995; Zbl 0960.46048)], the author defined a Chern-Simons action for noncommutative spaces in general. The author also reconstructed the analogue of gauge transformations and proved gauge invariance of the Chern-Simons action. He derived this result of this work by means of the coupling between cyclic cohomology and \(K\)-theory. Finally, the author proved that the Chern-Simons action, defined by him, coincides with the classical one if one works with a commutative spectral triple coming from a \(3\)-dimensional spin manifold. On the one hand, the author's construction is more explicit. He made use of the additional structure given by the spectral triple in order to define a unique Chern-Simons action for the particular triple (The definition by means of cyclic cohomology does not suggest uniqueness, and there is the question left which cocycle should be chosen). On the other hand, the author's definition contains an additional linear term: the cocycle \(\phi_1\) of the local index formula. Such an additional linear term in the definition of a noncommutative Chern-Simons action is a new one. The author also applied the general results about a noncommutative Chern-Simons action to a special example of noncommutative spaces: the quantum group \(\mathrm{SU}_q(2)\) with deformation parameter \( 0 \leq q < 1\). Using the Chern-Simons action as Lagrangian, the author defined and computed the path integral too.