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Temporal Lorentzian Spectral Triples

Mathematical Physics 2014-09-11 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology math.MP

Abstract

We present the notion of temporal Lorentzian spectral triple which is an extension of the notion of pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple with a way to ensure that the signature of the metric is Lorentzian. A temporal Lorentzian spectral triple corresponds to a specific 3+1 decomposition of a possibly noncommutative Lorentzian space. This structure introduces a notion of global time in noncommutative geometry. As an example, we construct a temporal Lorentzian spectral triple over a Moyal--Minkowski spacetime. We show that, when time is commutative, the algebra can be extended to unbounded elements. Using such an extension, it is possible to define a Lorentzian distance formula between pure states with a well-defined noncommutative formulation.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6575,
  title  = {Temporal Lorentzian Spectral Triples},
  author = {Nicolas Franco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6575},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

25 pages, a proposition has been added (Prop. 11) concerning the recovering of the Lorentzian signature, final version

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