Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-02-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
88 pages, an abridged version of PhD dissertation with improvements, originally submitted to the CUNY in Dec. 2005; v2. refere
Scientific paper
Quantization of spacetime by means of finite dimensional matrices is the basic idea of fuzzy spaces. There remains an issue of quantizing time, however, the idea is simple and it provides an interesting interplay of various ideas in mathematics and physics. Shedding some light on such an interplay is the main theme of this dissertation. The dissertation roughly separates into two parts. In the first part, we consider a mathematical aspect of fuzzy spaces, namely, their construction. We begin with a review of the construction of fuzzy complex projective spaces CP^k (k=1,2,...) in relation to geometric quantization. We then present the construction of fuzzy S^4, utilizing the fact that CP^3 is an S^2 bundle over S^4. This method is also applicable to the case of fuzzy S^8. In the second part, we consider applications of fuzzy spaces to physics. We first consider gravitational theories on fuzzy spaces, anticipating that they may offer a novel way of regularizing spacetime dynamics. Particularly we obtain actions for gravity on fuzzy S^2 and fuzzy CP^2. We also discuss application to M(atrix) theory. Introducing extra potentials, we show that the theory has new brane solutions whose transverse directions are described by fuzzy S^4 and fuzzy CP^3. The extra potentials can be interpreted as fuzzy versions of differential forms or fluxes, which enable us to discuss compactification models of M(atrix) theory. Compactification down to fuzzy S^4 is discussed and a physically interesting matrix model in four-dimensions is proposed.
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