Projective module description of embedded noncommutative spaces
Mathematical Physics
2010-05-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
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Abstract
An algebraic formulation is given for the embedded noncommutative spaces over the Moyal algebra developed in a geometric framework in \cite{CTZZ}. We explicitly construct the projective modules corresponding to the tangent bundles of the embedded noncommutative spaces, and recover from this algebraic formulation the metric, Levi-Civita connection and related curvatures, which were introduced geometrically in \cite{CTZZ}. Transformation rules for connections and curvatures under general coordinate changes are given. A bar involution on the Moyal algebra is discovered, and its consequences on the noncommutative differential geometry are described.
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@article{arxiv.0810.2357,
title = {Projective module description of embedded noncommutative spaces},
author = {R. B. Zhang and Xiao Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2357},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
25 pages, final version, to appear in Reviews in Mathematical Physics