Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-07-27
AIP Conf.Proc.1295:150-163,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
16 pages,7 figures, a contribution to the Constantine workshop on Astronomy and Astrophysics, june 2010
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.3518330
We give a brief review of two nonperturbative phenomena typical of noncommutative field theory which are known to lead to the perturbative instability known as the UV-IR mixing. The first phenomena concerns the emergence/evaporation of spacetime geometry in matrix models which describe perturbative noncommutative gauge theory on fuzzy backgrounds. In particular we show that the transition from a geometrical background to a matrix phase makes the description of noncommutative gauge theory in terms of fields via the Weyl map only valid below a critical value g_*. The second phenomena concerns the appearance of a nonuniform ordered phase in noncommutative scalar \phi^4 field theory and the spontaneous symmetry breaking of translational/rotational invariance which happens even in two dimensions. We argue that this phenomena also originates in the underlying matrix degrees of freedom of the noncommutative field theory. Furthermore it is conjectured that in addition to the usual WF fixed point at $\theta=0$ there must exist a novel fixed point at \theta=\infty corresponding to the quartic hermitian matrix model.
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