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Curved noncommutative torus and Gauss--Bonnet

Quantum Algebra 2013-11-21 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study perturbations of the flat geometry of the noncommutative two-dimensional torus T^2_\theta (with irrational \theta). They are described by spectral triples (A_\theta, \H, D), with the Dirac operator D, which is a differential operator with coefficients in the commutant of the (smooth) algebra A_\theta of T_\theta. We show, up to the second order in perturbation, that the zeta-function at 0 vanishes and so the Gauss-Bonnet theorem holds. We also calculate first two terms of the perturbative expansion of the corresponding local scalar curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1204.0420,
  title  = {Curved noncommutative torus and Gauss--Bonnet},
  author = {Ludwik Dabrowski and Andrzej Sitarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0420},
  year   = {2013}
}

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