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Scale invariance in the spectral action. (English) Zbl 1112.83036

Summary: The arbitrary mass scale in the spectral action for the Dirac operator is made dynamical by introducing a dilaton field. We evaluate all the low-energy terms in the spectral action and determine the dilaton couplings. These results are applied to the spectral action of the noncommutative space defined by the standard model. We show that the effective action for all matter couplings is scale invariant, except for the dilaton kinetic term and Einstein-Hilbert term. The resulting action is almost identical to the one proposed for making the standard model scale invariant as well as the model for extended inflation and has the same low-energy limit as the Randall-Sundrum model. Remarkably, all desirable features with correct signs for the relevant terms are obtained uniquely and without any fine tuning.

MSC:

83C65 Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity
58J42 Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues
81T75 Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory
81V22 Unified quantum theories
83E15 Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories

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