August 8, 2021
This paper continues the study of quasiparticles on complex manifolds with anticommuting co-ordinates, and shows that on increasing the dimensionality of the complex manifold from $\mathbb{C}^{\wedge 2}$ to $\mathbb{C}^{\wedge 6}$, the dimension-$L^{-1/2}$ spinor excitations in the associated effective field theory on $\mathbb{R}^{1,3}$ acquire an $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ colour charge and assemble into composite spinors of dimension $L^{-3/2}$. This model provides a novel environmen...
January 9, 2020
We propose a simple model of noncommutative geometry to describe the structure of the Standard Model, which satisfies spin${}_c$ condition, has no fermion doubling, does not lead to the possibility of color symmetry breaking and explains the CP-violation as the failure of the reality condition for the Dirac operator.
June 25, 2007
The Standard Model is based on the gauge invariance principle with gauge group U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) and suitable representations for fermions and bosons, which are begging for a conceptual understanding. We propose a purely gravitational explanation: space-time has a fine structure given as a product of a four dimensional continuum by a finite noncommutative geometry F. The raison d'etre for F is to correct the K-theoretic dimension from four to ten (modulo eight). We classify th...
May 8, 2015
Motivated by the space of spinors on a Lorentzian manifold, we define Krein spectral triples, which generalise spectral triples from Hilbert spaces to Krein spaces. This Krein space approach allows for an improved formulation of the fermionic action for almost-commutative manifolds. We show by explicit calculation that this action functional recovers the correct Lagrangians for the cases of electrodynamics, the electro-weak theory, and the Standard Model. The description of t...
April 4, 2001
We interpret the unimodularity condition in almost commutative geometries as central extensions of spin lifts. In Connes' formulation of the standard model this interpretation allows to compute the hypercharges of the fermions.
July 9, 2002
It is shown that the quarks and leptons of the standard model, including a right-handed neutrino, can be obtained by gauging the holonomy groups of complex projective spaces of complex dimensions two and three. The spectrum emerges as chiral zero modes of the Dirac operator coupled to gauge fields and the demonstration involves an index theorem analysis on a general complex projective space in the presence of topologically non-trivial SU(n)xU(1) gauge fields. The construction...
December 20, 2011
We formulate conditions under which the asymptotically expanded spectral action on an almost commutative manifold is renormalizable as a higher-derivative gauge theory. These conditions are of graph theoretical nature, involving the Krajewski diagrams that classify such manifolds. This generalizes our previous result on (super)renormalizability of the asymptotically expanded Yang-Mills spectral action to a more general class of particle physics models that can be described ge...
June 25, 2007
The purpose of this letter is to remove the arbitrariness of the ad hoc choice of the algebra and its representation in the noncommutative approach to the Standard Model, which was begging for a conceptual explanation. We assume as before that space-time is the product of a four-dimensional manifold by a finite noncommmutative space F. The spectral action is the pure gravitational action for the product space. To remove the above arbitrariness, we classify the irreducibe geom...
July 6, 2000
For Connes' spectral triples, the group of automorphisms lifted to the Hilbert space is defined and used to fluctuate the metric. A few commutative examples are presented including Chamseddine and Connes' spectral unification of gravity and electromagnetism. One almost commutative example is treated: the full standard model. Here the lifted automorphisms explain O'Raifeartaigh's reduction $SU(2)\times U(3)/\zz_2.$
August 31, 2010
I will summarize Noncommutative Geometry Spectral Action, an elegant geometrical model valid at unification scale, which offers a purely gravitational explanation of the Standard Model, the most successful phenomenological model of particle physics. Noncommutative geometry states that close to the Planck energy scale, space-time has a fine structure and proposes that it is given as the product of a four-dimensional continuum compact Riemaniann manifold by a tiny discrete fini...