Noncommutative field theory

• DOI: 10.1103/revmodphys.73.977
• Publication Date: 2002-07-26T20:03:47Z
• Authors: Michael Douglas; Nikita Nekrasov
• Keywords: Field theory (psychology)

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