TY - JOUR
T1 - Noncommutative gravity coupled to fermions
T2 - Second order expansion via Seiberg-Witten map
AU - Aschieri, Paolo
AU - Castellani, Leonardo
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We use the Seiberg-Witten map (SW map) to expand noncommutative gravity coupled to fermions in terms of ordinary commuting fields. The action is invariant under general coordinate transformations and local Lorentz rotations, and has the same degrees of freedom as the commutative gravity action. The expansion is given up to second order in the noncommutativity parameter θ. A geometric reformulation and generalization of the SW map is presented that applies to any abelian twist. Compatibility of the map with hermiticity and charge conjugation is proven. The action is shown to be real and invariant under charge conjugation at all orders in θ. This implies the bosonic part of the action to be even in θ, while the fermionic part is even in θ for Majorana fermions.
AB - We use the Seiberg-Witten map (SW map) to expand noncommutative gravity coupled to fermions in terms of ordinary commuting fields. The action is invariant under general coordinate transformations and local Lorentz rotations, and has the same degrees of freedom as the commutative gravity action. The expansion is given up to second order in the noncommutativity parameter θ. A geometric reformulation and generalization of the SW map is presented that applies to any abelian twist. Compatibility of the map with hermiticity and charge conjugation is proven. The action is shown to be real and invariant under charge conjugation at all orders in θ. This implies the bosonic part of the action to be even in θ, while the fermionic part is even in θ for Majorana fermions.
KW - Classical Theories of Gravity
KW - Non-Commutative Geometry
KW - Space-Time Symmetries
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84865078671&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)184
DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)184
M3 - Article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2012
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 7
M1 - 184
ER -