Matter-gravity coupling for fuzzy geometry and the Landau-Hall problem

TL;DR

This paper develops an effective action framework for matter fields on fuzzy spaces or lowest Landau levels, linking it to Chern-Simons forms and index densities, with implications for matter-gravity coupling.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to matter-gravity coupling on fuzzy geometries using Chern-Simons forms derived from Dirac index densities.

Findings

Effective action expressed as Chern-Simons form.

Matter Lagrangian density as polynomial in curvatures.

Applicable to fuzzy spaces and Landau-Hall systems.

Abstract

We consider a set of physical degrees of freedom coupled to a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, which may be taken as modeling a fuzzy space or as the lowest Landau level of a Landau-Hall problem. These may be viewed as matter fields on a fuzzy space. Sequentially generalizing to arbitrary backgrounds, we argue that the effective action is given by the Chern-Simons form associated with the Dirac index density (with gauge and gravitational fields), with an abelian gauge field shifted by the Poincar\'e-Cartan form for matter dynamics. The result is an action for matter fields where the Lagrangian is integrated with a density which is a specific polynomial in the curvatures.