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Massive Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs as Noncommutative Fuzzy Spheres

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-08-15 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Over the last couple of decades, there are direct and indirect evidences for massive compact objects than their conventional counterparts. A couple of such examples are super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs and massive neutron stars. The observations of more than a dozen peculiar over-luminous type Ia supernovae predict their origins from super-Chandrasekhar white dwarf progenitors. On the other hand, recent gravitational wave detection and some pulsar observations argue for massive neutron stars, lying in the famous mass-gap between lowest astrophysical black hole and conventional highest neutron star masses. We show that the idea of a squashed fuzzy sphere, which brings in noncommutative geometry, can self-consistently explain either of the massive objects as if they are actually fuzzy or squashed fuzzy spheres. Noncommutative geometry is a branch of quantum gravity. If the above proposal is correct, it will provide observational evidences for noncommutativity.

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@article{arxiv.2207.07667,
  title  = {Massive Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs as Noncommutative Fuzzy Spheres},
  author = {Surajit Kalita and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.07667},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

13 pages with 5 figures; invited article in a special issue "Quantum Gravity Phenomenology" under section "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity" in Universe; accepted for publication