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Lectures on Matrix Field Theory I

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Lattice Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The subject of matrix field theory involves matrix models, noncommutative geometry, fuzzy physics and noncommutative field theory and their interplay. In these lectures, a lot of emphasis is placed on the matrix formulation of noncommutative and fuzzy spaces, and on the non-perturbative treatment of the corresponding field theories. In particular, the phase structure of noncommutative ϕ4\phi^4 theory is treated in great detail, and an introduction to noncommutative gauge theory is given.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00924,
  title  = {Lectures on Matrix Field Theory I},
  author = {Badis Ydri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00924},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

293 pages, 10 figures. Several small parts of these lectures have already appeared in various preprints found on the arXiv. I have felt no need to reword my own expressions if I thought they conveyed the physics properly

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