Noncommutative Solitons, Monopoles and Instantons

duration: 2001
researchers: Abou Zeid, Bieling, Brödel; Fischer, Franco-Sollova, Gutschwager, Harland, Ihl, Klawunn, Kürkçüoglu, Lechtenfeld, Maceda, Müller-Ebhardt, Petersen, Popov, Sämann, Spendig, Uhlmann, Wimmer, Wolf; Chu, Domrin, Horvath, Ioannidou, Ivanova, Maceda, Mazzanti, Penati, Sergeev, Tamassia, Szabo
funding: DFG (1 postdoc 07-12, 1 PhD student 09-11), DAAD (1 postdoc 03-05, 1 PhD student 03-06, travel)
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Abstract:

The idea of a noncommutative space-time is more than fifty years old. It offers a mild way to introduce nonlocality into field theories without loosing too much control. Motivated by string theory the investigation of non-Abelian gauge theories defined on noncommutative space-times took center stage during the last few years. It is well known that the dynamics of non-Abelian gauge fields involves nonperturbative field configurations, like instantons and monopoles, in an essential way. Hence, before attempting to quantize a gauge theory it is mandatory to study its classical solutions and to characterize their moduli spaces.

In this project, we shall continue our ongoing investigation of solutions to the noncommutative self-dual Yang-Mills equations, Seiberg-Witten monopole equations and their descendants. This includes noncommutative vortices, solitons (lumps and waves), monopoles, instantons and pseudo-instantons in 2+0, 2+1, 3+0, 4+0 and 2+2 dimensions, respectively. Moreover, BPS solutions of the noncommutative Yang-Mills equations in higher dimensions (up to ten) will be constructed.


Papers:

Magnus Goffeng and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative deformation of the Ward metric
arXiv:1205.0020 [hep-th] ()
André Fischer and Richard J. Szabo:
Propagators and matrix basis on noncommutative Minkowski space
arXiv:1106.6166 [hep-th] (Phys. Rev. D 84 (2011) 125010)
Theodora Ioannidou and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative baby skyrmions
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(Talk by T.I. at the Workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity, Corfu Summer Institute on Elementary Particles and Physics, Corfu, Greece, 08-12 September 2010;
to appear as PoS(CNCFG2010)020)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Marco Maceda:
The Kähler potential of the non-commutative CP1 model
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(Talk by M.M. at the IV Mexican Meeting on Experimental and Theoretical Physics: Symposium on Gravitation BEC's Phenomenology, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2010;
AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1318 (2010) 187-195)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Marco Maceda:
On the non-commutative CP1 model
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(Talk by M.M. at the VIII School of the Gravitation and Mathematical Physics, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, December 2009;
AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1256 (2010) 208-212)
André Fischer and Richard J. Szabo:
UV/IR duality in noncommutative quantum field theory
arXiv:1001.3776 [hep-th]
(Talk by R.J.S. at three workshops/schools in 2009, Gen. Relativ. Gravit. 43 (2010) 2509-2522, DOI: 10.1007/s10714-010-1046-9)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Marco Maceda:
The noncommutative Ward metric
arXiv:1001.3416 [hep-th] (SIGMA 6 (2010) 045)
Theodora Ioannidou and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative baby Skyrmions
arXiv:0905.4077 [hep-th] (Phys. Lett. B 678 (2009) 508)
Derek Harland and Seçkin Kürkçüoglu:
Equivariant reduction of Yang-Mills theory over the fuzzy sphere and the emergent vortices
arXiv:0905.2338 [hep-th] (Nucl. Phys. B 821 (2009) 380-398)
André Fischer and Olaf Lechtenfeld
The noncommutative sine-Gordon breather
arXiv:0811.1048 [hep-th] (J. Math. Phys. 50 (2009) 095201)
André Fischer and Richard J. Szabo
Duality covariant quantum field theory on noncommutative Minkowski space
arXiv:0810.1195 [hep-th] (JHEP 0902 (2009) 031)
Seçkin Kürkçüoglu
Noncommutative Q-lumps
arXiv:0808.3745 [hep-th] (Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 105018)
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo
SU(3)-equivariant quiver gauge theories and nonabelian vortices
arXiv:0806.2791 [hep-th] (JHEP 0808(2008) 093)
Seçkin Kürkçüoglu:
Noncommutative nonlinear sigma models and integrability
arXiv:0804.3782 [hep-th] (Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 065020)
Alexander D. Popov:
Explicit non-abelian monopoles in SU(N) pure Yang-Mills theory
arXiv:0803.3320 [hep-th] ()
Sergei V. Ketov and Olaf Lechtenfeld
Non-anticommutative solitons
arXiv:0802.2867 [hep-th] (Phys. Lett. B 663 (2008) 353-359)
Alexander D. Popov:
Non-abelian vortices on Riemann surfaces: an integrable case
arXiv:0801.0808 [hep-th] ()
Alexander D. Popov:
Integrability of vortex equations on Riemann surfaces
arXiv:0712.1756 [hep-th] ()
Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative solitons:
arXiv:0710.2074 [hep-th]
(Talk at the "Third Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics'' at El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico, 14-17 September 2007;
AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 977, pp. 37-51)
Christian Gutschwager, Tatiana A. Ivanova and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Scattering of noncommutative waves and solitons in a supersymmetric chiral model in 2+1 dimensions
arXiv:0710.0079 [hep-th] (JHEP 0711 (2007) 052)
I.L. Buchbinder, E.A. Ivanov, O. Lechtenfeld, I.B. Samsonov and B.M. Zupnik:
Gauge theory in deformed N=(1,1) superspace
arXiv:0709.3770 [hep-th] (Phys. Part. Nucl. 39 (2008) 759-797)
Seçkin Kürkçüoglu and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Quantum aspects of the noncommutative sine-Gordon model
arXiv:0708.1310 [hep-th] (JHEP 0709 (2007) 020)
Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Supersymmetric noncommutative solitons
arXiv:0707.3522 [hep-th]
(Talk at "Noncommutative Spacetime Geometries" in Alessandria, Italy, 26-31 March 2007, and "Noncommutative Geometry and Physics" in Orsay, France, 23-27 April 2007;
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 103 (2008) 012016)
Aiyalam P. Balachandran, Kumar S. Gupta and Seçkin Kürkçüoglu:
Interacting quantum topologies and the quantum Hall effect
arXiv:0707.1219 [hep-th] ()
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo:
Quiver gauge theory and noncommutative vortices
arXiv:0706.0979 [hep-th]
(Talk by O.L. at the 21st Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium in Nishinomiya/Kyoto, Japan, 11-15 November 2006;
Proceedings: Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 171 (2007) 258-268)
Stefan Petersen:
Abelian solitons in the noncommutative Ward model
(Talk by S.P. at the 21st Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium in Nishinomiya/Kyoto, Japan, 11-15 November 2006;
Proceedings: Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 171 (2007) 223-227)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov:
Noncommutative solitons in a supersymmetric chiral model in 2+1 dimensions
arXiv:0704.0530 [hep-th] (JHEP 0706 (2007) 065)
Johannes Brödel, Tatiana Ivanova and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Construction of noncommutative instantons in 4k dimensions
hep-th/0703009 (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 23 (2008) 179-189)
I.L. Buchbinder, O. Lechtenfeld and I.B. Samsonov:
Vector-mutliplet effective action in the non-anticommutative charged hypermultiplet model
hep-th/0608048 (Nucl. Phys. B 758 (2006) 185-203)
Alexandra De Castro and Leonardo Quevedo:
Non-singlet Q-deformed N=(1,1) and N=(1,1/2) U(1) actions
hep-th/0605187 (Phys. Lett. B 639 (2006) 117-123)
Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative solitons
hep-th/0605034
(150 minutes of lectures given 01-04 November 2005 at the International Sendai-Beijing Joint Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and Physics;
Proceedings: pp. 175-200, World Scientific, 2007)
Michael Klawunn, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Stefan Petersen:
Moduli-space dynamics of noncommutative abelian sigma-model solitons
hep-th/0604219 (JHEP 0606 (2006) 028)
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo:
Rank two quiver gauge theory, graded connections and noncommutative vortices
hep-th/0603232 ()
Tatiana A. Ivanova and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative instantons on CPn
hep-th/0603125 (Phys. Lett. B 639 (2006) 407-410)
I. Buchbinder, E. Ivanov, O. Lechtenfeld, I. Samsonov and B. Zupnik:
Renormalizability of non-anticommutative N=(1,1) theories with singlet deformation
hep-th/0511234 (Nucl. Phys. B 740 (2006) 358-385)
Alexandra De Castro, Evgeny Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Leonardo Quevedo:
Non-singlet Q-deformation of the N=(1,1) vector multiplet in harmonic superspace
hep-th/0510013 (Nucl. Phys. B 747 (2006) 1-24)
Chong-Sun Chu and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Emergence of time from dimensional reduction in noncommutative geometry
hep-th/0508055 (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 21 (2006) 639-647)
Chong-Sun Chu and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Time-space noncommutative abelian solitons
hep-th/0507062 (Phys. Lett. B 625 (2005) 145-155)
Matthias Ihl and Christian Sämann:
Drinfeld-twisted supersymmetry and non-anticommutative superspace
hep-th/0506057 (JHEP 0601 (2006) 065)
Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo
Quiver gauge theory of nonabelian vortices and noncommutative instantons in higher dimensions
hep-th/0504025 (J. Math. Phys. 47 (2006) 012306)
Robert Wimmer:
D0-D4 brane tachyon condensation to a BPS state and its excitation spectrum in noncommutative super Yang-Mills theory
hep-th/0502158 (JHEP 0505 (2005) 022)
Tatiana A. Ivanova and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative instantons in 4k dimensions
hep-th/0502117 (Phys. Lett. B 612 (2005) 65-74)
Andrei V. Domrin, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Stefan Petersen:
Sigma-model solitons in the noncommutative plane: construction and stability analysis
hep-th/0412001 (JHEP 0503 (2005) 045)
Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative sine-Gordon model
hep-th/0409108
(Talk at the XIIIth International Colloquium Integrable Systems and Quantum Groups, Prague, 17-19 June 2004, and at the 37th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Berlin-Schmöckwitz, 23-27 August 2004:
Czech. J. Phys. 54 (2004) 1351-1357; Fortsch. Phys. 53 (2005) 500-505)
Evgenyi Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Boris Zupnik:
Non-anticommutative deformation of N=(1,1) hypermultiplets
hep-th/0408146 (Nucl. Phys. B 707 (2005) 69-86)
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Liuba Mazzanti, Silvia Penati, Alexander D. Popov and Laura Tamassia:
Integrable noncommutative sine-Gordon model
hep-th/0406065 (Nucl. Phys. B 705 (2005) 477-503)
Sergio Ferrara, Evgeny Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Emery Sokatchev and Boris Zupnik:
Non-anticommutative chiral singlet deformation of N=(1,1) gauge theory
hep-th/0405049 (Nucl. Phys. B 704 (2005) 154-180)
Tatiana A. Ivanova, Olaf Lechtenfeld and and Helge Müller-Ebhardt:
Noncommutative moduli for multi-instantons
hep-th/0404127 (Mod. Phys. Lett. A 19 (2004) 2419-2430)
Evgeny Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Boris Zupnik:
Non-anticommutative N=(1,1) Euclidean superspace
hep-th/0402062
(Talk by E.I. at JINR workshop ``Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries'', Dubna, Russia, 24-29 July 2003;
Proceedings 2004: SQS'03, pp. )
Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative instantons and solitons
hep-th/0401158
(talk at the 27th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, Göteborg, Sweden, 24-26 August 2003, and at the 36th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Berlin, Germany, 26-30 August 2003:
short version: Fortsch. Phys. 52 (2004) 596-605; long version: JHEP PRHEP-jhw2003/017)
Christian Sämann and Martin Wolf:
Constraint and super Yang-Mills equations on the deformed superspace Rh(4|16)
hep-th/0401147 (JHEP 0403 (2004) 048)
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov and Richard J. Szabo:
Noncommutative instantons in higher dimensions, vortices and topological K-cycles
hep-th/0310267 (JHEP 0312 (2003) 022)
Evgenyi Ivanov, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Boris Zupnik:
Nilpotent deformations of N=2 superspace
hep-th/0308012 (JHEP 0402 (2004) 012)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov:
Noncommutative monopoles and Riemann-Hilbert problems
hep-th/0306263 (JHEP 0401 (2004) 069)
Tatiana A. Ivanova and Olaf Lechtenfeld:
Noncommutative multi-instantons on R2n x S2
hep-th/0305195 (Phys. Lett. B 567 (2003) 107-115)
Alexander D. Popov, Armen G. Sergeev and Martin Wolf:
Seiberg-Witten monopole equations on noncommutative R4
hep-th/0304263 (J. Math. Phys. 44 (2003) 4527-4554)
Matthias Ihl and Sebastian Uhlmann:
Noncommutative extended waves and soliton-like configurations in N=2 string theory
hep-th/0211263 (Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 18 (2003) 4889-4932)
Zalan Horvath, Olaf Lechtenfeld and Martin Wolf:
Noncommutative instantons via dressing and splitting approaches
hep-th/0211041 (JHEP 0212 (2002) 060)
Filip Franco-Sollova and Tatiana Ivanova:
On noncommutative merons and instantons
hep-th/0209153 (J. Phys. A 36 (2003) 4207-4219)
Martin Wolf:
Soliton-antisoliton scattering configurations in a noncommutative sigma model in 2+1 dimensions
hep-th/0204185 (JHEP 0206 (2002) 055)
Stig Bieling:
Interaction of noncommutative plane waves in 2+1 dimensions
hep-th/0203269 (J. Phys. A 35 (2002) 6281-6291)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov:
Noncommutative 't Hooft instantons
hep-th/0109209 (JHEP 0203 (2002) 040)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov:
Scattering of noncommutative solitons in 2+1 dimensions
hep-th/0108118 (Phys. Lett. B 523 (2001) 178-184)
Olaf Lechtenfeld and Alexander D. Popov:
Noncommutative multi-solitons in 2+1 dimensions
hep-th/0106213 (JHEP 0111 (2001) 040)
Olaf Lechtenfeld, Alexander D. Popov and Bernd Spendig:
Noncommutative solitons in open N=2 string theory
hep-th/0103196 (JHEP 0106 (2001) 011)