Renormalizability conditions for almost commutative manifolds

Walter D. van Suijlekom

Published 2011-12-20Version 1

We formulate conditions under which the asymptotically expanded spectral action on an almost commutative manifold is renormalizable as a higher-derivative gauge theory. These conditions are of graph theoretical nature, involving the Krajewski diagrams that classify such manifolds. This generalizes our previous result on (super)renormalizability of the asymptotically expanded Yang-Mills spectral action to a more general class of particle physics models that can be described geometrically in terms of a noncommutative space. In particular, it shows that the asymptotically expanded spectral action which at lowest order gives the Standard Model of elementary particles is renormalizable.