Position-dependent noncommutative products: classical construction and field theory

dc.creatorGayral, V.
dc.creatorGracia-Bondia, J. M.
dc.creatorRuiz, F. Ruiz
dc.date2005-04-04
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dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:45:10Z
dc.descriptionWe look in Euclidean $R^4$ for associative star products realizing the commutation relation $[x^μ,x^ν]=iΘ^{μν}(x)$, where the noncommutativity parameters $Θ^{μν}$ depend on the position coordinates $x$. We do this by adopting Rieffel's deformation theory (originally formulated for constant $Θ$ and which includes the Moyal product as a particular case) and find that, for a topology $R^2 \times R^2$, there is only one class of such products which are associative. It corresponds to a noncommutativity matrix whose canonical form has components $Θ^{12}=-Θ^{21}=0$ and $Θ^{34}=-Θ^{43}= θ(x^1,x^2)$, with $þ(x^1,x^2)$ an arbitrary positive smooth bounded function. In Minkowski space-time, this describes a position-dependent space-like or magnetic noncommutativity. We show how to generalize our construction to $n\geq 3$ arbitrary dimensions and use it to find traveling noncommutative lumps generalizing noncommutative solitons discussed in the literature. Next we consider Euclidean $λϕ^4$ field theory on such a noncommutative background. Using a zeta-like regulator, the covariant perturbation method and working in configuration space, we explicitly compute the UV singularities. We find that, while the two-point UV divergences are non-local, the four-point UV divergences are local, in accordance with recent results for constant $Θ$.
dc.description1+22 pages, no figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504022
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0504022
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.B727:513-536,2005
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.08.016
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/182836
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titlePosition-dependent noncommutative products: classical construction and field theory
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