Spectral geometry of the Moyal plane with harmonic propagation
Raimar Wulkenhaar
University of Münster, GermanyVictor Gayral
Université de Reims, France
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Abstract
We construct a ‘non-unital spectral triple of finite volume’ out of the Moyal product and a differential square root of the harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian. We find that the spectral dimension of this triple is but the KO-dimension is . We add another Connes–Lott copy and compute the spectral action of the corresponding Yang–Mills–Higgs model. As result, the ‘covariant coordinate’ involving the gauge field combines with the Higgs field to a unified potential, yielding a deep unification of discrete and continuous parts of the geometry.
Cite this article
Raimar Wulkenhaar, Victor Gayral, Spectral geometry of the Moyal plane with harmonic propagation. J. Noncommut. Geom. 7 (2013), no. 4, pp. 939–979
DOI 10.4171/JNCG/140