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Voja Radovanović

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arXiv2025

Physical implications of four dimensional braided noncommutative gravity

The formulation of gravity theories on noncommutative (NC) spacetimes has been an active area of research for some time. Various models and methods have been proposed in the literature. Even within the star-product formalism, there are several distinct approaches to constructing NC deformations of General Relativity (GR) and Einstein-Cartan-Palatini (ECP) gravity. Some models are based on the NC local Lorentz symmetry, while others rely on NC deformations of the diffeomorphism symmetry of GR. In this paper, we investigate the connection between two NC gravity models based on twisted and braided NC diffeomorphism symmetry. Although these two models yield different NC gravity actions, we show that, in certain cases, they lead to the same phenomenological consequences. In particular, they share identical three-graviton vertex and exhibit some simple common vacuum solutions. This work represents a step towards understanding the diverse landscape of NC gravity models constructed within the star-product framework.

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arXiv2025

Page Curve for an Evaporating Schwarzschild Black Hole in Dimensionally-Reduced Model of Dilaton Gravity

We study entanglement entropy of quantum fields in a (1+1)-dimensional model of dilaton gravity derived from the four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action by dimensional reduction. Scalar matter is coupled to gravity, while the back-reaction is included via the Polyakov-Liouville action. This theory exhibits both eternal and evaporating Schwarzschild black hole solutions. The fine-grained entropy in a collapse scenario is investigated by applying the "island rule" via the quantum extremal surface approach. We demonstrate that the fine-grained entropy of the Hawking radiation follows the Page curve, and therefore the evolution of the Hawking radiation is unitary.

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arXiv2025

Collapse Scenario and Final State of Evaporation for Schwarzschild Black Hole in Dimensionally-Reduced Model of Dilaton Gravity

We study a model of (1+1)-dimensional dilaton gravity derived from the four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action by dimensional reduction in a semiclassical approximation including back-reaction. The reduced action involves the cosmological constant and admits black hole solutions; among these, the solutions of interest are the evaporating black holes. We solve the equations of motion perturbatively by demanding that the initial state geometry is a Minkowski space-time. When the infalling matter intersects the space-time boundary, the black hole forms and begins to evaporate. We find that as the black hole evaporates, its horizon shrinks and at a finite space-time point, it meets the singularity and a shockwave occurs. Along this hypersurface, the metric can be continuously matched to a static end-state geometry. This end-state geometry is Minkowski space-time within the first-order of perturbation theory.

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arXiv2024

Braided scalar quantum field theory

We formulate scalar field theories in a curved braided $L_\infty$-algebra formalism and analyse their correlation functions using Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization. We perform detailed calculations in cubic braided scalar field theory up to two-loop order and three-point multiplicity. The divergent tadpole contributions are eliminated by a suitable choice of central curvature for the $L_\infty$-structure, and we confirm the absence of UV/IR mixing. The calculations of higher loop and higher multiplicity correlators in homological perturbation theory are facilitated by the introduction of a novel diagrammatic calculus. We derive an algebraic version of the Schwinger-Dyson equations based on the homological perturbation lemma, and use them to prove the braided Wick theorem.

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arXiv2024

Braided Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics

We formulate scalar electrodynamics in the braided $L_\infty$-algebra formalism and study its perturbative expansion in the algebraic framework of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization. We confirm that UV/IR mixing is absent at one-loop order in this noncommutative field theory, and that the non-anomalous Ward-Takahashi identities for the braided gauge symmetry are satisfied.

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arXiv2023

Noncommutative $SO(2,3)_{\star}$ Gauge Theory of Gravity

Topological gravity (in the sense that it is metric-independent) in a $2n$-dimensional spacetime can be formulated as a gauge field theory for the AdS gauge group $SO(2,2n-1)$ by adding a multiplet of scalar fields. These scalars can break the gauge invariance of the topological gravity action, thus making a connection with Einstein's gravity. This review is about a noncommutative (NC) star-product deformation of the four-dimensional AdS gauge theory of gravity, including Dirac spinors and the Yang-Mills field. In general, NC actions can be expanded in powers of the canonical noncommutativity parameter $θ$ using the Seiberg-Witten map. The leading-order term of the expansion is the classical action, while the higher-order $θ$-dependent terms are interpreted as new types of coupling between classical fields due to spacetime noncommutativity. We study how these perturbative NC corrections affect the field equations of motion and derive some phenomenological consequences, such as NC-deformed Landau levels of an electron. Finally, we discuss how topological gravity in four dimensions (both classical and noncommutative) appears as a low-energy sector of five-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theory in the sense of Kaluza-Klein reduction.

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arXiv2023

Braided Quantum Electrodynamics

The homotopy algebraic formalism of braided noncommutative field theory is used to define the explicit example of braided electrodynamics, that is, $\mathsf{U}(1)$ gauge theory minimally coupled to a Dirac fermion. We construct the braided $L_\infty$-algebra of this field theory and obtain the braided equations of motion, action functional and conserved matter current. The modifications of the electric charge conservation law due to the braided noncommutative deformation are described. We develop a braided generalization of Wick's theorem, and use it to compute correlation functions of the braided quantum field theory using homological perturbation theory. Our putative calculations indicate that the braided theory does not contain the non-planar Feynman diagrams of conventional noncommutative quantum field theory, and that correlators do not exhibit UV/IR mixing.

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arXiv2023

BV quantization of braided scalar field theory

We address the problem of UV/IR mixing in noncommutative quantum field theories from the perspective of braided $L_\infty$-structures and the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. We describe the example of braided noncommutative scalar field theory and its quantization using braided homological perturbation theory. The formalism is illustrated through one-loop calculations of the two-point functions for $ϕ^4$-theory in four dimensions and $ϕ^3$-theory in six dimensions. In both cases we find that there are no non-planar diagrams and no UV/IR mixing.

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arXiv2022

Page Curve for Eternal Schwarzschild Black Hole in Dimensionally-Reduced Model of Dilaton Gravity

As a contribution to the subject of the information loss paradox in (1+1)-dimensional gravitational systems, we study a model of (1+1)-dimensional dilaton gravity derived from the four-dimensional Einstein-Hilbert action by dimensional reduction. The reduced action involves the cosmological constant and admits black hole solutions. After including the back-reaction of quantum fields to 1-loop order, we solve the semi-classical field equations perturbatively and compute the quantum correction to the Hawking temperature. We consider the quantum extremal surface approach and invoke the ``island rule'' to compute the fine-grained entropy of the Hawking radiation for an eternal Schwarzschild black hole and demonstrate that it follows the unitary Page curve.

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arXiv2022

$L_\infty$-algebra of braided electrodynamics

Using the recently developed formalism of braided noncommutative field theory, we construct an explicit example of braided electrodynamics, that is, a noncommutative $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to a Dirac fermion. We construct the braided $L_\infty$-algebra of this field theory and apply the formalism to obtain the braided equations of motion, action functional and conserved matter current. The braided deformation leads to a modification of the charge conservation. Finally, the Feynman integral appearing in the one-loop contribution to the vacuum polarization diagram is calculated. There are no non-planar diagrams, but the UV/IR mixing appears nevertheless. We comment on this unexpected result.

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arXiv2021

Braided $L_{\infty}$-Algebras, Braided Field Theory and Noncommutative Gravity

We define a new homotopy algebraic structure, that we call a braided $L_\infty$-algebra, and use it to systematically construct a new class of noncommutative field theories, that we call braided field theories. Braided field theories have gauge symmetries which realize a braided Lie algebra, whose Noether identities are inhomogeneous extensions of the classical identities, and which do not act on the solutions of the field equations. We use Drinfel'd twist deformation quantization techniques to generate new noncommutative deformations of classical field theories with braided gauge symmetries, which we compare to the more conventional theories with star-gauge symmetries. We apply our formalism to introduce a braided version of general relativity without matter fields in the Einstein-Cartan-Palatini formalism. In the limit of vanishing deformation parameter, the braided theory of noncommutative gravity reduces to classical gravity without any extensions.

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arXiv2021

Microscopic derivation of Dirac composite fermion theory: Aspects of noncommutativity and pairing instabilities

Building on previous work [N. Read, Phys. Rev. B 58, Z. Dong and T. Senthil, 16262 (1998); Phys. Rev. B 102, 205126 (2020)] on the system of bosons at filling factor $ν= 1$, we derive the Dirac composite fermion theory for a half-filled Landau level from first principles and applying the Hartree-Fock approach in a preferred representation. On the basis of the microscopic formulation, in the long-wavelength limit, we propose a noncommutative field-theoretical description, which in a commutative limit reproduces the Son's theory, with additional terms that may be expected on physical grounds. The microscopic representation of the problem is also used to discuss pairing instabilities of composite fermions. We find that a presence of a particle-hole symmetry breaking leads to a weak (BCS) coupling $p$-wave pairing in the lowest Landau level, and strong coupling $p$-wave pairing in the second Landau level that occurs in a band with nearly flat dispersion, a third power function of momentum.

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arXiv2020

$L_{\infty}$-Algebras of Einstein-Cartan-Palatini Gravity

We give a detailed account of the cyclic $L_\infty$-algebra formulation of general relativity with cosmological constant in the Einstein-Cartan-Palatini formalism on spacetimes of arbitrary dimension and signature, which encompasses all symmetries, field equations and Noether identities of gravity without matter fields. We present a local formulation as well as a global covariant framework, and an explicit isomorphism between the two $L_\infty$-algebras in the case of parallelizable spacetimes. By duality, we show that our $L_\infty$-algebras describe the complete BV-BRST formulation of Einstein-Cartan-Palatini gravity. We give a general description of how to extend on-shell redundant symmetries in topological gauge theories to off-shell correspondences between symmetries in terms of quasi-isomorphisms of $L_\infty$-algebras. We use this to extend the on-shell equivalence between gravity and Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions to an explicit $L_\infty$-quasi-isomorphism between differential graded Lie algebras which applies off-shell and for degenerate dynamical metrics. In contrast, we show that there is no morphism between the $L_\infty$-algebra underlying gravity and the differential graded Lie algebra governing $BF$ theory in four dimensions.

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arXiv2020

Homotopy Lie Algebras of Gravity and their Braided Deformations

We describe the cyclic $L_{\infty}$-algebra formulation of classical general relativity without matter fields in the Einstein-Cartan-Palatini formalism. Using Drinfel'd twist deformation techniques, we define a noncommutative version of the theory with braided gauge symmetries. We introduce a notion of braided $L_{\infty}$-algebra, and use it to encode the symmetries, field content, field equations and Noether identities of noncommutative gravity.

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arXiv2019

Canonical Deformation of $N=2$ $AdS_{4}$ SUGRA

It is known that one can define a consistent theory of extended, $N=2$ anti-de Sitter (AdS) Supergravity (SUGRA) in $D=4$. Besides the standard gravitational part, this theory involves a single $U(1)$ gauge field and a pair of Majorana vector-spinors that can be mixed into a pair of charged spin-$3/2$ gravitini. The action for $N=2$ $AdS_{4}$ SUGRA is invariant under $SO(1,3)\times U(1)$ gauge transformations, and under local SUSY. We present a geometric action that involves two "inhomogeneous" parts: an orthosymplectic $OSp(4\vert 2)$ gauge-invariant action of the Yang-Mills type, and a supplementary action invariant under purely bosonic $SO(2,3)\times U(1)\sim Sp(4)\times SO(2)$ sector of $OSp(4\vert 2)$, that needs to be added for consistency. This action reduces to $N=2$ $AdS_{4}$ SUGRA after gauge fixing, for which we use a constrained auxiliary field in the manner of Stelle and West. Canonical deformation is performed by using the Seiberg-Witten approach to noncommutative (NC) gauge field theory with the Moyal product. The NC-deformed action is expanded in powers of the deformation parameter $θ^{μν}$ up to the first order. We show that $N=2$ $AdS_{4}$ SUGRA has non-vanishing linear NC correction in the physical gauge, originating from the additional, purely bosonic action. For comparison, simple $N=1$ Poinacaré SUGRA can be obtained in the same manner, directly from an $OSp(4\vert 1)$ gauge-invariant action. The first non-vanishing NC correction is quadratic in $θ^{μν}$ and therefore exceedingly difficult to calculate. Under Wigner-Inönü (WI) contraction, $N=2$ AdS superalgebra reduces to $N=2$ Poincaré superalgebra, and it is not clear whether this relation holds after canonical deformation. We present the linear NC correction to $N=2$ $AdS_{4}$ SUGRA explicitly, discuss its low-energy limit, and what remains of it after WI contraction.

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arXiv2018

Noncommutative Electrodynamics from $SO(2,3)_\star$ Model of Noncommutative Gravity

In our previous work we have constructed a model of noncommutative (NC) gravity based on $SO(2,3)_\star$ gauge symmetry. In this paper we extend the model by adding matter fields: fermions and a $U(1)$ gauge field. Using the enveloping algebra approach and the Seiberg-Witten map we construct actions for these matter fields and expand the actions up to first order in the noncommutativity (deformation) parameter. Unlike in the case of pure NC gravity, first non-vanishing NC corrections are linear in the noncommutativity parameter. In the flat space-time limit we obtain a non-standard NC Electrodynamics. Finally, we discuss effects of noncommutativity on relativistic Landau levels of an electron in a constant background magnetic field and in addition we calculate the induced NC magnetic dipole moment of the electron.

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arXiv2017

Dirac field and gravity in NC $SO(2,3)_\star$ model

Action for the Dirac spinor field coupled to gravity on noncommutative (NC) Moyal-Weyl space-time is obtained without prior knowledge of the metric tensor. We emphasise gauge origins of gravity (i.e. metric structure) and its interaction with fermions by demonstrating that a classical action invariant under $SO(2,3)$ gauge transformations can be exactly reduced to the Dirac action in curved space-time after breaking the original symmetry down to the local Lorentz $SO(1,3)$ symmetry. The commutative, $SO(2,3)$ invariant action can be straightforwardly deformed via Moyal-Weyl $\star$-product to its NC $SO(2,3)_\star$ invariant version which can be expanded perturbatively in the powers of the deformation parameter using the Seiberg-Witten map. The gravity-matter couplings in the expansion arise as an effect of the gauge symmetry breaking. We calculate in detail the first order NC correction to the classical Dirac action in curved space-time and show that it does not vanish. This significant feature of the presented model enables us to potentially observe the NC effects already at the lowest perturbative order. Moreover, NC effects are apparent even in the flat space-time limit. We analyse NC modification of the Dirac equation, Feynman propagator and dispersion relation for electrons in Minkowski space-time.

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arXiv2016

NC $SO(2,3)_\star$ gravity: noncommutativity as a source of curvature and torsion

Noncommutative (NC) gravity is constructed on the canonical noncommutative (Moyal-Weyl) space-time as a noncommutative $SO(2,3)_\star$ gauge theory. The NC gravity action consists of three different terms: the first term is of Mac-Dowell Mansouri type, while the other two are generalizations of the Einstein-Hilbert action and the cosmological constant term. The expanded NC gravity action is then calculated using the Seiberg-Witten (SW) map and the expansion is done up second order in the deformation parameter. We analyze in details the low energy sector of the full model. We calculate the equations of motion, discuss their general properties and present one solution: the NC correction to Minkowski space-time. Using this solution, we explain breaking of the diffeomorphism symmetry as a consequence of working in a particular coordinate system given by the Fermi normal coordinates.

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