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Chiral spinors and gauge fields in noncommutative curved space-time

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

The fundamental concepts of Riemannian geometry, such as differential forms, vielbein, metric, connection, torsion and curvature, are generalized in the context of non-commutative geometry. This allows us to construct the Einstein-Hilbert-Cartan terms, in addition to the bosonic and fermionic ones in the Lagrangian of an action functional on non-commutative spaces. As an example, and also as a prelude to the Standard Model that includes gravitational interactions, we present a model of chiral spinor fields on a curved two-sheeted space-time with two distinct abelian gauge fields. In this model, the full spectrum of the generalized metric consists of pairs of tensor, vector and scalar fields. They are coupled to the chiral fermions and the gauge fields leading to possible parity violation effects triggered by gravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212062,
  title  = {Chiral spinors and gauge fields in noncommutative curved space-time},
  author = {Nguyen Ai Viet and Kameshwar C. Wali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212062},
  year   = {2009}
}

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50 pages LaTeX, minor corrections and references added