Split-Quaternionic Hopf Map, Quantum Hall Effect, and Twistor Theory

TL;DR

This paper explores a non-compact Hopf map linking quantum Hall effects on hyperboloids with twistor theory, revealing enhanced symmetries and fuzzy space-time emergence.

Contribution

It introduces a non-compact Hopf map framework for quantum Hall effects on hyperboloids, connecting it with twistor theory and symmetry enhancement.

Findings

Quantum Hall effect constructed on hyperboloids using split-quaternions.

Explicit many-body groundstate wavefunction and membrane-like excitations derived.

Symmetry enhanced from SO(3,2) to SU(2,2) in the lowest Landau level.

Abstract

Introducing a non-compact version of the Hopf map, we demonstrate remarkable close relations between quantum Hall effect and twistor theory. We first construct quantum Hall effect on a hyperboloid based on the noncompact 2nd Hopf map of split-quaternions. We analyze a hyperbolic one-particle mechanics, and explore many-body problem, where a many-body groundstate wavefunction and membrane-like excitations are derived explicitly. In the lowest Landau level, the symmetry is enhanced from $SO(3, 2)$ to the $SU(2, 2)$ conformal symmetry. We point out that the quantum Hall effect naturally realizes the philosophy of twistor theory. In particular, the emergence mechanism of fuzzy space-time is discussed somehow in detail.