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Fuzzy Sphere from Matrix Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

Using a D0-brane as a probe, we study the spacetime geometry in the neighborhood of N D-branes in matrix theory. We find that due to fermionic zero modes, the coordinates of the probe in the transverse directions are noncommutative, and the angular part is a fuzzy sphere.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010165,
  title  = {Fuzzy Sphere from Matrix Model},
  author = {Pei-Ming Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010165},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, minor modification