Noncommutative geometry of angular momentum space U(su(2))
Abstract
We study the standard angular momentum algebra [xi,xj]=ıλɛijkxk as a noncommutative manifold Rλ3. We show that there is a natural 4D differential calculus and obtain its cohomology and Hodge * operator. We solve the spin 0 wave equation and some aspects of the Maxwell or electromagnetic theory including solutions for a uniform electric current density, and we find a natural Dirac operator ∂/. We embed Rλ3 inside a 4D noncommutative space-time which is the limit q→1 of q-Minkowski space and show that Rλ3 has a natural quantum isometry group given by the quantum double C(SU(2))⋊U(su(2)) which is a singular limit of the q-Lorentz group. We view Rλ3 as a collection of all fuzzy spheres taken together. We also analyze the semiclassical limit via minimum uncertainty states |j,θ,φ> approximating classical positions in polar coordinates.
- Publication:
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Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1517395
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0205128
- Bibcode:
- 2003JMP....44..107B
- Keywords:
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- 11.30.Hv;
- 02.20.Qs;
- 02.40.Gh;
- 11.10.-z;
- Flavor symmetries;
- General properties structure and representation of Lie groups;
- Noncommutative geometry;
- Field theory;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Mathematics - Quantum Algebra
- E-Print:
- Minor revision to add reference [11]. 37 pages latex