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Non-commutative deformation of Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-24 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The problem of the consistent definition of gauge theories living on the non-commutative (NC) spaces with a non-constant NC parameter Θ(x)\Theta(x) is discussed. Working in the L_\infty formalism we specify the undeformed theory, 33d abelian Chern-Simons, by setting the initial 1\ell_1 brackets. The deformation is introduced by assigning the star commutator to the 2\ell_2 bracket. For this initial set up we construct the corresponding L_\infty structure which defines both the NC deformation of the abelian gauge transformations and the field equations covariant under these transformations. To compensate the violation of the Leibniz rule one needs the higher brackets which are proportional to the derivatives of Θ\Theta. Proceeding in the slowly varying field approximation when the star commutator is approximated by the Poisson bracket we derive the recurrence relations for the definition of these brackets for arbitrary Θ\Theta. For the particular case of su(2)su(2)-like NC space we obtain an explicit all orders formulas for both NC gauge transformations and NC deformation of Chern-Simons equations. The latter are non-Lagrangian and are satisfied if the NC field strength vanishes everywhere.

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@article{arxiv.1905.08753,
  title  = {Non-commutative deformation of Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Vladislav G. Kupriyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08753},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

33 pages, published version, exposition improved, new material regarding the definition of the non-commutative field strength and the treatment of the non-commutativity of general form added