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Enveloping algebra valued gauge transformations for non-abelian gauge groups on non-commutative spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 30 Jun 2000 · 18 references

Pith's verdict: The first-order non-abelian Seiberg-Witten construction is explicit and correct; the abstract's finite-field-content claim is only established to first order in theta, with the all-orders step delegated to a paper listed as in preparation.

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CitationBranislav Jurco, Julius Wess, Peter Schupp, Stefan Schraml. "Enveloping algebra valued gauge transformations for non-abelian gauge groups on non-commutative spaces." arXiv:hep-th/0006246 (2000). https://pith.science/paper/OZJTIYVH
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The paper claims

Noncommutative gauge theory can be rewritten with only the ordinary number of gauge fields, because every higher algebraic component is fixed by the Seiberg-Witten map.

The reading

On a noncommutative space, an infinitesimal gauge transformation does not stay inside the Lie algebra: commutators and anticommutators of the generators pile up higher and higher powers, so the natural home for both the transformation parameter and the connection is the infinite-dimensional enveloping algebra. That looks fatal, since it would require infinitely many coordinate-dependent parameters and infinitely many gauge fields. The paper argues that this tower is not free: if the parameter and the connection are built with the Seiberg-Witten map, each higher component is a function of the ordinary Lie-algebra-valued parameter, the ordinary Lie-algebra-valued gauge field, and their derivatives. The payoff claimed in the abstract is that one can then write a dynamics for a finite number of gauge field components on a noncommutative space, with the same field content as an ordinary gauge theory. The paper verifies this explicitly to first order in the noncommutativity parameter $[abstract:s0]$ and argues the general order by matching powers of $[abstract:s1]$.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing device is a single star product on one big algebra whose generators are the noncommutative coordinates together with the Lie algebra generators, so that $[abstract:s0]$ the space and the internal symmetry are treated on the same footing. Gauge fields enter as covariant coordinates $[abstract:s0]$, whose transformation law forces the connection to be enveloping-algebra-valued. The Seiberg-Witten map is then the mechanism that ties every higher power of the generators to the Lie-algebra data, and the crucial structural assumption is the grading: the term of order $[abstract:s0]$ in the noncommutativity parameter is taken to be a polynomial of degree $n$ in the generators, which is what makes the two expansions line up order by order. Because higher generator powers correspond to higher powers of the structure constants, this is simultaneously an expansion in the gauge coupling. The paper also shows that for the canonical structure the derivatives need not be introduced separately, since $[abstract:s0]$ commutes with all coordinates and can be set to zero, and that an integral with the cyclic and Stokes properties exists, which is what allows a gauge-invariant action.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that an enveloping-algebra-valued gauge parameter $[abstract:s0]$ and an enveloping-algebra-valued connection on a canonically noncommutative space can both be restricted so that their components are determined by a Lie-algebra-valued parameter $[abstract:s0]$ and a Lie-algebra-valued gauge field through the Seiberg-Witten map. Concretely, writing the expansion in powers of the noncommutativity parameter $[abstract:s0]$, the terms of order $[abstract:s0]$ are assumed to be polynomials of degree $n$ in the group generators, and the paper shows that this grading is consistent: the variation of the connection closes on the same restricted form, and the composition of two restricted transformations reproduces the commutator of the underlying Lie-algebra transformations. To first order the solution is written out explicitly, with the parameter and connection corrections expressed through the ordinary field strength and its derivatives, and the resulting field strength transforms covariantly under the restricted transformation. The authors then state that the same counting holds to all orders, so that a gauge-invariant action can be built from a finite number of components $[abstract:s1]$.

Load-bearing premise

The step from the explicit first-order calculation to a claim about all orders rests on an assumed bookkeeping rule, stated in Section 3 rather than proved there: the correction at order $[abstract:s0]$ in the noncommutativity parameter is taken to be a polynomial of degree $n$ in the group generators, and the all-orders statement is then delegated to a paper listed as in preparation.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • A noncommutative gauge theory can be written with exactly as many independent gauge fields and transformation parameters as the corresponding commutative Lie-algebra gauge theory.
  • A gauge-invariant action can be built from the covariant field strength $[abstract:s0]$ using a trace over the group generators and an integral with the cyclic property, and it reduces to the usual action as the noncommutativity parameter goes to zero.
  • The restricted transformations close: the commutator of two restricted transformations is again a restricted transformation, so the finite-parameter truncation is consistent rather than a first-order accident.
  • The construction extends from the canonical case to Lie-type and quantum-plane noncommutativity with coordinate-dependent $[abstract:s0]$, with the same first-order formulas written in terms of the appropriate $[abstract:s0]$.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the grading holds at every order, noncommutative corrections to a nonabelian gauge theory cannot introduce new propagating degrees of freedom; all novelty would have to sit in the derivative structure of the star product, not in extra fields.
  • The grading assumption is directly testable at second order: compute the order-$[abstract:s0]$ terms for a simple group such as $[abstract:s0]$ and check whether the corrections are indeed degree-two polynomials in the generators, or whether terms of other degrees appear.
  • Because the generator degree tracks powers of the coupling, the map as constructed is a simultaneous expansion in the noncommutativity parameter and in the gauge coupling; the regime where it is trustworthy is therefore narrower than a purely geometric expansion would suggest.
  • The same bookkeeping should apply if the internal space is replaced by another noncommutative algebra, so the argument is really a statement about how two star products combine, not about the canonical structure specifically.
Original abstract

An enveloping algebra valued gauge field is constructed, its components are functions of the Lie algebra valued gauge field and can be constructed with the Seiberg-Witten map. This allows the formulation of a dynamics for a finite number of gauge field components on non-commutative spaces.

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An enveloping algebra valued gauge field is constructed, its components are functions of the Lie algebra valued gauge field and can be constructed with the Seiberg-Witten map. This allows the formulation of a dynamics for a finite number of gauge field components on non-commutative spaces.

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  • [ref] for non-supersymmetric gauge theories: now the noncommutative vector superfields will be valued in the enveloping algebra of the Lie algebra of the ordinary gauge group.

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    Noncommutative supergravity in D=3 and D=4 · Local $⋆$-supersymmetry · 0.80

  • Within the enveloping-algebra framework of Refs. [ref] , one introduces at least a noncommutative field for each ordinary field.

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