Noncommutative general relativity

Xavier Calmet and Archil Kobakhidze
Phys. Rev. D 72, 045010 – Published 11 August 2005

Abstract

We define a theory of noncommutative general relativity for canonical noncommutative spaces. We find a subclass of general coordinate transformations acting on canonical noncommutative spacetimes to be volume-preserving transformations. Local Lorentz invariance is treated as a gauge theory with the spin connection field taken in the so(3,1) enveloping algebra. The resulting theory appears to be a noncommutative extension of the unimodular theory of gravitation. We compute the leading order noncommutative correction to the action and derive the noncommutative correction to the equations of motion of the weak gravitation field.

  • Received 28 June 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.045010

©2005 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Xavier Calmet1,* and Archil Kobakhidze2,3,†

  • 1Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP225, Boulevard du Triomphe (Campus plaine), B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
  • 3Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, 0177 Tbilisi, Georgia

  • *Electronic address: xcalmet@ulb.ac.be
  • Electronic address: kobakhid@physics.unc.edu

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Vol. 72, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2005

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