Algebraic structures in κ-Poincaré invariant gauge theories

Abstract

[Formula: see text]-Poincaré invariant gauge theories on [Formula: see text]-Minkowski space-time, which are noncommutative analogs of the usual U(1) gauge theory, exist only in five dimensions. These are built from noncommutative twisted connections on a hermitian right module over the algebra coding the [Formula: see text]-Minkowski space-time. We show that twisting the action of this algebra on the hermitian module, assumed to be a copy of it, affects neither the value of the above dimension nor the noncommutative gauge group defined as the unitary automorphisms of the module leaving the hermitian structure unchanged. Only the hermiticity condition obeyed by the gauge potential becomes twisted. Similarities between the present framework and algebraic features of twisted spectral triples are exhibited.