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A fuzzy bipolar celestial sphere

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-07-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We introduce a non-commutative deformation of the algebra of bipolar spherical harmonics supporting the action of the full Lorentz algebra. Our construction is close in spirit to the one of the non-commutative spherical harmonics associated to the fuzzy sphere and, as such, it leads to a maximal value of the angular momentum. We derive the action of Lorentz boost generators on such non-commutative spherical harmonics and show that it is compatible with the existence of a maximal angular momentum.

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@article{arxiv.1901.01167,
  title  = {A fuzzy bipolar celestial sphere},
  author = {Francesco Alessio and Michele Arzano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.01167},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures; v2: typos corrected, references added; v3 title slightly changed, minor adjustments in the presentation, results unchanged. References added, matches published version

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