Special Issue on Noncommutative Spaces and Fields

The Guest Editors for this special issue are

Paolo Aschieri (E. Fermi Centre, Rome and University Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy)
Harald Grosse (University of Vienna, Austria)
Giovanni Landi (University of Trieste, Italy)
Richard Szabo (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Over the years, noncommutative geometry has developed into a new branch of pure mathematics, and has also influenced and found applications in many other areas of mathematics. It has been further applied in a variety of physical contexts, most notably to gauge theories, the Standard Model, the fractional quantum Hall effect, string theory and M-theory, and various scenarios for quantum gravity. Quantum field theories on noncommutative spaces have also taught us lessons about foundational issues in field theory and gravity. The aim of this special issue of SIGMA is to provide a contemporary overview of some of the main developments and applications of noncommutative geometry, ranging from formal considerations to phenomenological applications.

Topics for this special issue will include:

• gravity in noncommutative geometry;
• formal aspects of noncommutative quantum field theory, such as renormalization;
• noncommutative instantons, solitons and vortices;
• quantum groups, deformation quantization, and related structures;
• physical applications, such as the Standard Model and potential phenomenology.

Papers on these or related topics are welcome for this issue.

How to Submit an Article to the Issue.

Both original research articles and review papers will be considered (not having been published elsewhere).

There is no limit to the length of an article. Deadline for paper submission is March 30, 2010.

All articles will go through the standard peer reviewing procedure of SIGMA.

If you have your paper ready earlier than the deadline, we encourage you to send it now. We will start the reviewing process and publish the paper as soon as the positive publication decision is made. The paper will be indexed in the relevant databases as soon as it is published without waiting for completion of the special issue.

The poster of the issue is available in A4 format and A3 format.

Papers in this Issue:

Exotic Galilean Symmetry and Non-Commutative Mechanics

Peter A. Horváthy, Luigi Martina and Peter C. Stichel
SIGMA 6 (2010), 060, 26 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Noncommutativity and Duality through the Symplectic Embedding Formalism

Everton M.C. Abreu, Albert C.R. Mendes and Wilson Oliveira
SIGMA 6 (2010), 059, 36 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Bifundamental Fuzzy 2-Sphere and Fuzzy Killing Spinors

Horatiu Nastase and Constantinos Papageorgakis
SIGMA 6 (2010), 058, 28 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

A View on Optimal Transport from Noncommutative Geometry

Francesco D'Andrea and Pierre Martinetti
SIGMA 6 (2010), 057, 24 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

A Note on Dirac Operators on the Quantum Punctured Disk

Slawomir Klimek and Matt McBride
SIGMA 6 (2010), 056, 12 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Quantum Fields on Noncommutative Spacetimes: Theory and Phenomenology

Aiyalam P. Balachandran, Alberto Ibort, Giuseppe Marmo and Mario Martone
SIGMA 6 (2010), 052, 22 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

The Multitrace Matrix Model of Scalar Field Theory on Fuzzy CPⁿ

Christian Sämann
SIGMA 6 (2010), 050, 23 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

On the Origin of the Harmonic Term in Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory

Axel de Goursac
SIGMA 6 (2010), 048, 20 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Translation-Invariant Noncommutative Renormalization

Adrian Tanasa
SIGMA 6 (2010), 047, 13 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

The Scattering Problem for a Noncommutative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Bergfinnur Durhuus and Victor Gayral
SIGMA 6 (2010), 046, 17 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

The Noncommutative Ward Metric

Olaf Lechtenfeld and Marco Maceda
SIGMA 6 (2010), 045, 14 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Discrete Minimal Surface Algebras

Joakim Arnlind and Jens Hoppe
SIGMA 6 (2010), 042, 18 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Strong Field, Noncommutative QED

Anton Ilderton, Joakim Lundin and Mattias Marklund
SIGMA 6 (2010), 041, 27 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Integral calculus on E_q(2)

Tomasz Brzeziński
SIGMA 6 (2010), 040, 10 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

One-Loop Calculations and Detailed Analysis of the Localized Non-Commutative p⁻² U(1) Gauge Model

Daniel N. Blaschke, Arnold Rofner and René I.P. Sedmik
SIGMA 6 (2010), 037, 20 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Emergent Abelian Gauge Fields from Noncommutative Gravity

Allen Stern
SIGMA 6 (2010), 019, 15 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]

Quantum Isometry Group for Spectral Triples with Real Structure

Debashish Goswami
SIGMA 6 (2010), 007,  7 pages   [ abs   pdf   ps ]