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The noncommutative geometry of wire networks from triply periodic surfaces

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-11 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study wire networks that are the complements of triply periodic minimal surfaces. Here we consider the P, D, G surfaces which are exactly the cases in which the corresponding graphs are symmetric and self-dual. Our approach is using the Harper Hamiltonian in a constant magnetic field. We treat this system with the methods of noncommutative geometry and obtain a classification for all the CC^* geometries that appear.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5462,
  title  = {The noncommutative geometry of wire networks from triply periodic surfaces},
  author = {Ralph M. Kaufmann and Sergei Khlebnikov and Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5462},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures