The index of the overlap Dirac operator on a discretized 2d non-commutative torus

Details The index of the overlap Dirac operator on a discretized 2d non-commutative torus The index of the overlap Dirac operator on a discretized 2d non-commutative torus

2006-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0602078v3

JHEP 0702:033,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX, JHEP3.cls. v3:figures 1 and 2 improved (all the solutions included),version published in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2007/02/033

The index, which is given in terms of the number of zero modes of the Dirac operator with definite chirality, plays a central role in various topological aspects of gauge theories. We investigate its properties in non-commutative geometry. As a simple example, we consider the U(1) gauge theory on a discretized 2d non-commutative torus, in which general classical solutions are known. For such backgrounds we calculate the index of the overlap Dirac operator satisfying the Ginsparg-Wilson relation. When the action is small, the topological charge defined by a naive discretization takes approximately integer values, and it agrees with the index as suggested by the index theorem. Under the same condition, the value of the index turns out to be a multiple of N, the size of the 2d lattice. By interpolating the classical solutions, we construct explicit configurations, for which the index is of order 1, but the action becomes of order N. Our results suggest that the probability of obtaining a non-zero index vanishes in the continuum limit, unlike the corresponding results in the commutative space.

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