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Geometric Dirac operator on the fuzzy sphere

Quantum Algebra 2022-02-09 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a Connes spectral triple or `Dirac operator' on the non-reduced fuzzy sphere Cλ[S2]C_\lambda[S^2] as realised using quantum Riemannian geometry with a central quantum metric gg of Euclidean signature and its associated quantum Levi-Civita connection. The Dirac operator is characterised uniquely up to unitary equivalence within our quantum Riemannian geometric setting and an assumption that the spinor bundle is trivial and rank 2 with a central basis. The spectral triple has KO dimension 3 and in the case of the round metric, essentially recovers a previous proposal motivated by rotational symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2104.13212,
  title  = {Geometric Dirac operator on the fuzzy sphere},
  author = {Evelyn Lira-Torres and Shahn Majid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13212},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

16 pages AMSLATEX no figures; minor revision, added sample computation of a Connes spectral distance in the concluding remarks

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