Key research themes
1. How does noncommutativity influence gauge field theories and their renormalization properties?
This theme investigates the formalism and computational techniques to handle non-Abelian gauge theories formulated on noncommutative spacetimes, focusing on their effective actions, renormalization properties, and beta functions. Understanding this is crucial because noncommutative gauge theories arise naturally in string theory and quantum gravity contexts and exhibit novel UV/IR mixing behavior that challenges conventional renormalization approaches.
2. What is the role of non-Hermitian and PT-symmetric extensions in non-Abelian gauge theories, and how do they affect symmetry breaking and particle spectra?
This research area explores the formulation and implications of quantum field theories with non-Hermitian but PT-symmetric Lagrangians, including non-Abelian gauge fields. It investigates how such theories can maintain physical consistency despite non-Hermiticity, modify or extend spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanisms like the Higgs mechanism, and lead to distinct particle mass spectra and gauge structures. This offers novel pathways beyond the conventional Hermitian field theories with potential phenomenological implications.
3. Can algebra doubling and noncommutative spectral geometry elucidate the emergence of gauge structures, dissipation, and quantization in quantum field theories?
This research theme centers on the mathematical structure of algebra doubling in Alain Connes’ noncommutative spectral geometry (NCSG) and its physical implications. It focuses on how this doubling is intimately linked to gauge symmetries, dissipative dynamics, and the emergence of quantum statistical behaviors like temperature. The work aims to clarify the foundational connections between noncommutative geometry, gauge field theories, and the underpinnings of quantization from algebraic and geometrical viewpoints.