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