Title

Gravity And Electromagnetism In Noncommutative Geometry

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Giovanni Landi, Syracuse University, Physics Department
Nguyen Ai Viet, Syracuse University, Physics Department
Kameshwar C. Wali, Sryacuse University, Physics Department

Document Type

Article

Date

1994

Keywords

Gravity, Electromagnetism, Z2 Noncommunicative differential calculus, Kaluza-Klein theory

Language

English

Disciplines

Algebraic Geometry | Cosmology, Relativity, and Gravity | Electromagnetics and Photonics | Physics

Description/Abstract

We present a unified description of gravity and electromagnetism in the framework of a Z 2 non-commutative differential calculus. It can be considered as a “discrete version” of Kaluza-Klein theory, where the fifth continuous dimension is replaced by two discrete points. We derive an action which coincides with the dimensionally reduced one of the ordinary Kaluza-Klein theory.

Recommended Citation

Landi, Giovanni; Viet, Nguyen Ai; and Wali, Kameshwar C., "Gravity And Electromagnetism In Noncommutative Geometry" (1994). Physics - All Scholarship. 26.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/26