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Levi-Civita's Theorem for Noncommutative Tori

Operator Algebras 2015-01-21 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show how to define Riemannian metrics and connections on a noncommutative torus in such a way that an analogue of Levi-Civita's theorem on the existence and uniqueness of a Riemannian connection holds. The major novelty is that we need to use two different notions of noncommutative vector field. Levi-Civita's theorem makes it possible to define Riemannian curvature using the usual formulas.

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@article{arxiv.1307.3775,
  title  = {Levi-Civita's Theorem for Noncommutative Tori},
  author = {Jonathan Rosenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3775},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Proposition 3.4 corrected