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Twisted Quadrics and Algebraic Submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^n$

Mathematical Physics 2021-05-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We propose a general procedure to construct noncommutative deformations of an algebraic submanifold MM of Rn\mathbb{R}^n, specializing the procedure [G. Fiore, T. Weber, Twisted submanifolds of Rn\mathbb{R}^n, arXiv:2003.03854] valid for smooth submanifolds. We use the framework of twisted differential geometry of Aschieri et al. (Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 1883-1911, 2006), whereby the commutative pointwise product is replaced by the \star-product determined by a Drinfel'd twist. We actually simultaneously construct noncommutative deformations of all the algebraic submanifolds McM_c that are level sets of the fa(x)f^a(x), where fa(x)=0f^a(x)=0 are the polynomial equations solved by the points of MM, employing twists based on the Lie algebra Ξt\Xi_t of vector fields that are tangent to all the McM_c. The twisted Cartan calculus is automatically equivariant under twisted Ξt\Xi_t. If we endow Rn\mathbb{R}^n with a metric, then twisting and projecting to normal or tangent components commute, projecting the Levi-Civita connection to the twisted MM is consistent, and in particular a twisted Gauss theorem holds, provided the twist is based on Killing vector fields. Twisted algebraic quadrics can be characterized in terms of generators and \star-polynomial relations. We explicitly work out deformations based on abelian or Jordanian twists of all quadrics in R3\mathbb{R}^3 except ellipsoids, in particular twisted cylinders embedded in twisted Euclidean R3\mathbb{R}^3 and twisted hyperboloids embedded in twisted Minkowski R3\mathbb{R}^3 [the latter are twisted (anti-)de Sitter spaces dS2dS_2, AdS2AdS_2].

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@article{arxiv.2005.03509,
  title  = {Twisted Quadrics and Algebraic Submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Gaetano Fiore and Davide Franco and Thomas Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03509},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Latex file, 50 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.03854

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