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In this chapter we analyze the gauge theories corresponding (in the sense of Chap. 6) to a special class of noncommutative manifolds, to wit almost-commutative, or AC manifolds. We will see that this class leads to the usual gauge theories in physics.
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van Suijlekom, W.D. (2015). Almost-Commutative Manifolds and Gauge Theories. In: Noncommutative Geometry and Particle Physics. Mathematical Physics Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9162-5_8
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