HIGH ENERGY THEORY / RELATIVITY / COSMOLOGY SEMINARS

Spring 2008

Friday April 11 Seminar at 12.15pm :

Alexios Polychronakos (City Coll. of N. Y.)

Title : Noncommutative Wess-Zumino models and Bosonization

Abstract:

Noncommutative Wess-Zumino-Witten models arise as generalizations of the standard WZW models on noncommutative spaces or, interestingly, as exact bosonic descriptions of many-body fermion systems. A remarkable property of these models in 1+1 dimension is the existence of a "Seiberg-Witten"-type transformation that changes the noncommutativity parameter and yet leaves the action invariant. We extend this transformation to non-critical actions and demonstrate that it leads to standard bosonization in 1+1 dimensions and corresponding higher dimensional generalizations.

Host : Balachandran

 

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