String geometry and the noncommutative torus

DOI10.1007/S002200050839MaRDI QIDQ1961072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Landi, Fedele Lizzi, Richard J. Szabo

Publication date 21 November 2000

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806099

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic and fermionic actionschiral tachyon operatorsduality-invariancegeneral gauge theoryMorita equivalencenoncommutative torusnoncommutative unital *-algebrastring geometrytachyon algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Abstract: We construct a new gauge theory on a pair of d-dimensional noncommutative tori. The latter comes from an intimate relationship between the noncommutative geometry associated with a lattice vertex operator algebra A and the noncommutative torus. We show that the (truncated) tachyon subalgebra of A is naturally isomorphic to a class of twisted modules representing quantum deformations of the algebra of functions on the torus. We construct the corresponding even real spectral triples and determine their Morita equivalence classes using string duality arguments. These constructions yield simple proofs of the O(d,d;Z) Morita equivalences between $d$-dimensional noncommutative tori and give a natural physical interpretation of them in terms of the target space duality group of toroidally compactified string theory. We classify the automorphisms of the twisted modules and construct the most general gauge theory which is invariant under the automorphism group. We compute bosonic and fermionic actions associated with these gauge theories and show that they are explicitly duality-symmetric. The duality-invariant gauge theory is manifestly covariant but contains highly non-local interactions. We show that it also admits a new sort of particle-antiparticle duality which enables the construction of instanton field configurations in any dimension. The duality non-symmetric on-shell projection of the field theory is shown to coincide with the standard non-abelian Yang-Mills gauge theory minimally coupled to massive Dirac fermion fields.

Review text

A lattice vertex operator algebra \(\mathcal{A}\) is introduced for a free infinite discrete abelian group \(L\) of rank \(d\). \(\mathcal{A}\) is a noncommutative unital \(*\)-algebra with the usual Hermitian conjugation and operator norm defined on an appropriate dense domain of bounded operators in \(\mathcal{A}\). A subalgebra \(\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)}\), called the tachyon algebra, is constructed from the chiral tachyon operators of \(\mathcal{A}\) by considering a ``\(N\)-truncated algebra obtained by considering only a finite number of oscillators and then taking the limit \(N\to\infty\). The algebra \(\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)}\) defines a \(2d\)-dimensional \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-twisted module \(\widetilde{\mathcal{T}}_\omega^d\) over the noncommutative torus, where \({\mathcal T}_\omega^d\) carries a double representation \(T^{(+)d}_\omega\times T^{(-)d}_\omega\) of the noncommutative torus \(T_\omega^d\). For the algebra \(\mathcal{A}\), an even real spectral triple \((\mathcal{A},{\mathcal H},D,J,\Gamma)\) is constructed and also for \(\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)}\), the spectral triples \((\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)}, {\mathcal H}_0,\partial,J,\Gamma)\) and \((\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)},{\mathcal H}_0,\overline{\partial},J,\Gamma)\) are constructed. The Morita equivalence classes for the algebra \(\mathcal{A}^{(\omega)}\) are determined by means of the string duality arguments. The automorphism classes of the module \(\widetilde{\mathcal T}_\omega^d\) are determined. The general gauge theory invariant under this automorphisms is constructed. Bosonic and fermionic actions associated with the gauge theories are computed and are investigated in detail from the view point of duality-invariance.

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