Global and local aspects of spectral actions

Details Global and local aspects of spectral actions Global and local aspects of spectral actions

2012-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/1201.6637v1

Physics

Mathematical Physics

22 pages, dedicated to Stuart Dowker on his 75th birthday

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The principal object in noncommutatve geometry is the spectral triple consisting of an algebra A, a Hilbert space H, and a Dirac operator D. Field theories are incorporated in this approach by the spectral action principle, that sets the field theory action to Tr f(D^2/\Lambda^2), where f is a real function such that the trace exists, and \Lambda is a cutoff scale. In the low-energy (weak-field) limit the spectral action reproduces reasonably well the known physics including the standard model. However, not much is known about the spectral action beyond the low-energy approximation. In this paper, after an extensive introduction to spectral triples and spectral actions, we study various expansions of the spectral actions (exemplified by the heat kernel). We derive the convergence criteria. For a commutative spectral triple, we compute the heat kernel on the torus up the second order in gauge connection and consider limiting cases.

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