One-Loop Fluctuation Response Along a Constrained Noncommutative Modulus in the Lorentzian IIB Matrix Model

Abstract

We study a local constrained problem at matrix size $N=5$ in the Lorentzian IIB (IKKT) matrix model and numerically continue a one-dimensional physical modulus. For an exact fixed-$Q_ρ$ constrained solution family, the stationary identity implies constant classical action; the 23 accepted backgrounds realize this relation to the quoted precision. Across the sampled branch, the spectrum of the Lorentzian extent operator remains common to numerical precision while microscopic noncommutative invariants vary. We evaluate finite-dimensional one-loop fluctuations along this branch. At fixed bosonic background, the fermionic Grassmann integral is exact and gives $\operatorname{Pf}\mathcal M_F$; its magnitude is invariant under color-gauge and connected proper-Lorentz transformations and varies along the modulus. The complete boson--ghost--fermion quotient measure defines a Lorentz-representative-independent density one-form rather than a scalar potential. Thus quantum fluctuation data distinguish backgrounds unresolved by the coarse quadratic spectrum. We also apply a framed higher-$L$ SO(5) structural probe. At the reference background, the ordered $3+6$ spectral separation is larger at $L=2,3$ than at $L=1$, and larger still in the canonical large-$L$ limit. This is a frame-defined diagnostic, not an intrinsic observable or a higher-$N$ solution. The Pfaffian and higher-$L$ responses are closely correlated along the sampled branch, which we treat only as descriptive. These results suggest that microscopic noncommutative structure and quantum fluctuations may contain information relevant to dimensional dynamics, without establishing dimensional selection.