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Yang-Mills theory on noncommutative space: does it exist?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

I revisit a basic question about the noncommutative Yang-Mills theory: if it exists or not, or more precisely, whether a nonperturbative formulation exists. As the most promising approach, I consider a formulation based on matrix models. It is explained that the existence of the noncommutative Yang-Mills theory is closely related to the Eguchi-Kawai equivalence. I argue that supersymmetric noncommutative Yang-Mills theory can be defined straightforwardly. Non-supersymmetric theories, such as QCD and pure bosonic theories, can presumably be defined, by modifying the ultraviolet and infrared behaviors appropriately.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04662,
  title  = {Yang-Mills theory on noncommutative space: does it exist?},
  author = {Masanori Hanada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04662},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2015 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", 1-27 September 2015, Corfu, Greece. v2: a comment on an important reference has been added

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