Space-Time Quantization and Matrix Model

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel framework for space-time quantization, where space-time quantities become noncommutative and matrix-represented, connecting nonlocalizable objects with matrix models in superstring theory.

Contribution

It develops a generalized space-time quantization approach that incorporates noncommutativity among space-time quantities and links to matrix models in superstring theory.

Findings

Space-time quantities are represented as infinite-dimensional matrices.

A field equation relates space-time quantities to the U-field.

Discussion of connections between matrix models and superstring theory.

Abstract

In order to get the general framework describing a nonlocalizable object beyond the bilocal field theory early proposed by Markov and Yukawa, the quantization of space-time is reconsidered and further developed. Space-time quantities are there not only noncommutative with U-field describing the nonlocalizable object, as in the bilocal field theory, but also become noncommutative among themselves. Under the U-field representation, where the basis vectors of representation are chosen to be eigenvectors of operator U, space-time quantities get a matrix representation of infinite dimension in general. Field equation is considered, which determines the relation between space-time quantities and U-field. The possible inner relation between the recent topics of matrix model in superstring theory and the present approach is discussed.