Description of curved spacetimes by finite-size matrices in the type IIB matrix model

Abstract The type IIB matrix model is expected to give a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. Its covariant derivative interpretation provides a method to describe curved spacetimes in the model. There, matrices are identified with certain covariant derivatives which can be viewed as infinite-size matrices. Here, by using the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, we develop a method to regularize these matrices as finite-size ones, which is needed to calculate quantum effects in the interpretation or in particular to apply the interpretation to the results of numerical simulations. As examples, we examine the cases of T2n and S2 in detail.