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Noncommuting Gauge Fields as a Lagrange Fluid

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

The Lagrange description of an ideal fluid gives rise in a natural way to a gauge potential and a Poisson structure that are classical precursors of analogous noncommuting entities. With this observation we are led to construct gauge-covariant coordinate transformations on a noncommuting space. Also we recognize the Seiberg-Witten map from noncommuting to commuting variables as the quantum correspondent of the Lagrange to Euler map in fluid mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0206014,
  title  = {Noncommuting Gauge Fields as a Lagrange Fluid},
  author = {R. Jackiw and S. -Y. Pi and A. P. Polychronakos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0206014},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages; final version to appear in Annals of Physics