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Title: Fuzzy geometry via the spinor bundle, with applications to holographic space-time and matrix theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
 [1];  [2]
  1. NHETC and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019 (United States)
  2. SCIPP and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064-1077 (United States)

We present a new framework for defining fuzzy approximations to geometry in terms of a cutoff on the spectrum of the Dirac operator, and a generalization of it that we call the Dirac-flux operator. This framework does not require a symplectic form on the manifold, and is completely rotation invariant on an arbitrary n-sphere. The framework is motivated by the formalism of holographic space-time, whose fundamental variables are sections of the spinor bundle over a compact Euclidean manifold. The strong holographic principle requires the space of these sections to be finite dimensional. We discuss applications of fuzzy spinor geometry to holographic space-time and to matrix theory.

OSTI ID:
21611517
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 84, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.086008; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English