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Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 977–1029 (2001)

Noncommutative field theory

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Michael R. Douglas*
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35 route des Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Nikita A. Nekrasov
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, 35 route des Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117259 Moscow, Russia

Published 29 November 2001

This article reviews the generalization of field theory to space-time with noncommuting coordinates, starting with the basics and covering most of the active directions of research. Such theories are now known to emerge from limits of M theory and string theory and to describe quantum Hall states. In the last few years they have been studied intensively, and many qualitatively new phenomena have been discovered, on both the classical and the quantum level.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.73.977
DOI:
10.1103/RevModPhys.73.977
PACS:
11.10.-z, 11.15.-q, 11.25.-w, 02.40.Gh

*Electronic address: mrd@physics.rutgers.edu