Published September 16, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Nonassociative Weyl star products

  • 1. CMCC-Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, SP (Brazil)

Description

Deformation quantization is a formal deformation of the algebra of smooth functions on some manifold. In the classical setting, the Poisson bracket serves as an initial conditions, while the associativity allows to proceed to higher orders. Some applications to string theory require deformation in the direction of a quasi-Poisson bracket (that does not satisfy the Jacobi identity). This initial condition is incompatible with associativity, it is quite unclear which restrictions can be imposed on the deformation. We show that for any quasi-Poisson bracket the deformation quantization exists and is essentially unique if one requires (weak) hermiticity and the Weyl condition. We also propose an iterative procedure that allows one to compute the star product up to any desired order.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)103; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/11884

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2015
Journal Issue
09
Journal Page Range
p. 103
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48029204
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
DEFORMATION; FIELD ALGEBRA; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; STRING THEORY; WEYL UNIFIED THEORY
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; M-THEORY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP09(2015)103; ARXIV:1506.02329; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:11884
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)