English

Spin $j$ Dirac Operators on the Fuzzy 2-Sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The spin 1/2 Dirac operator and its chirality operator on the fuzzy 2-sphere SF2S^2_F can be constructed using the Ginsparg-Wilson(GW) algebra [arxiv:hep-th/0511114]. This construction actually exists for any spin jj on SF2S^2_F, and have continuum analogues as well on the commutative sphere S2S^2 or on R2\mathbb{R}^{2}. This is a remarkable fact and has no known analogue in higher dimensional Minkowski spaces. We study such operators on SF2S^2_F and the commutative S2S^2 and formulate criteria for the existence of the limit from the former to the latter. This singles out certain fuzzy versions of these operators as the preferred Dirac operators. We then study the spin 1 Dirac operator of this preferred type and its chirality on the fuzzy 2-sphere and formulate its instanton sectors and their index theory. The method to generalize this analysis to any spin jj is also studied in detail.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0907.2977,
  title  = {Spin $j$ Dirac Operators on the Fuzzy 2-Sphere},
  author = {A. P. Balachandran and Pramod Padmanabhan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2977},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, 1 table

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:25:57.673Z