Constant H field, cosmology and faster than light solitons

Jan, 2006
30 pages
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  • BROWN-HET-1461

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Abstract:
We analyze the possibility of having a constant spatial NS-NS field, H123H_{123}. Cosmologically, it will act as stiff matter, and there will be very tight constraints on the possible value of H123H_{123} today. However, it will give a noncommutative structure with an {\em associative} star product of the type θij=αϵijkxk\theta^{ij}=\alpha \epsilon^{ijk} x^k. This will be a fuzzy space with constant radius slices being fuzzy spheres. We find that gauge theory on such a space admits a noncommutative soliton with galilean dispersion relation, thus having speeds arbitrarily higher than c. This is the analogue of the Hashimoto-Itzhaki construction at constant θ\theta, except that one has fluxless solutions of arbitrary mass. A holographic description supports this finding. We speculate thus that the presence of constant (yet very small) H123H_{123}, even though otherwise virtually undetectable could still imply the existence of faster than light solitons of arbitrary mass (although possibly quantum-mechanically unstable). The spontaneous Lorentz violation given by H123H_{123} is exactly the same one already implied by the FRW metric ansatz.
  • gravitation: action
  • field theory: scalar
  • field theory: tensor
  • tensor: energy-momentum
  • cosmological model
  • soliton
  • differential geometry: noncommutative
  • holography
  • duality
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
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