%0 Journal Article
%T Monopoles and Solitons in Fuzzy Physics
%A S. Baez
%A A. P. Balachandran
%A S. Vaidya
%A B. Ydri
%J Physics
%D 1998
%I arXiv
%R 10.1007/s002200050011
%X Monopoles and solitons have important topological aspects like quantized fluxes, winding numbers and curved target spaces. Naive discretizations which substitute a lattice of points for the underlying manifolds are incapable of retaining these features in a precise way. We study these problems of discrete physics and matrix models and discuss mathematically coherent discretizations of monopoles and solitons using fuzzy physics and noncommutative geometry. A fuzzy sigma-model action for the two-sphere fulfilling a fuzzy Belavin-Polyakov bound is also put forth.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9811169v6