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Spectral action and heat kernel trace for Ricci flat manifolds from stochastic flow over second quantized $L^2$-differential forms

Mathematical Physics 2024-01-02 v1 Differential Geometry math.MP Probability

Abstract

A quantum stochastic differential equation (qsde) on Fock space over L2L^2 differential 1-forms is given from the small "time" flow of which the trace of the connection Laplacian heat kernel for the spinor endomorphism bundle can be computed over any compact Ricci-flat Riemannian manifold. The existence of the stochastic flow is established by adapting the construction from [14]. When the manifold supports a parallel spinor - Ricci-flatness is a required integrability condition for parallel spinors, the trace of Dirac Laplacian heat kernel of the spinor bundle can be recovered. For 4-manifolds, this corresponds to the spectral action, and realizes Einstein-Hilbert action as a stochastic flow.

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@article{arxiv.2401.00643,
  title  = {Spectral action and heat kernel trace for Ricci flat manifolds from stochastic flow over second quantized $L^2$-differential forms},
  author = {Sita Gakkhar and Matilde Marcolli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.00643},
  year   = {2024}
}
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