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Quantum geodesic flows on graphs

Quantum Algebra 2023-12-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We revisit the construction of quantum Riemannian geometries on graphs starting from a hermitian metric compatible connection, which always exists. We use this method to find quantum Levi-Civita connections on the nn-leg star graph for n=2,3,4n=2,3,4 and find the same phenomenon as recently found for the AnA_n Dynkin graph that the metric length for each outbound arrow has to exceed the length in the other direction by a multiple, here n\sqrt{n}. We then study quantum geodesics on graphs and construct these on the 4-leg graph and on the integer lattice line Z\Bbb Z with a general edge-symmetric metric

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@article{arxiv.2312.10779,
  title  = {Quantum geodesic flows on graphs},
  author = {Edwin Beggs and Shahn Majid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10779},
  year   = {2023}
}

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29 pages latex, 5 pdf figures

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