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Alain Connes' noncommutative theory led to an interesting model including both Standard Model of particle physics and Euclidean Gravity. Nevertheless, an hyperbolic version of the gravitational part would be necessary to make physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Nicolas Franco

Since the subject of noncommutative geometry is now entering maturity, we felt there is need for presentation of the material at an undergraduate course level. Our review is a zero order approximation to this project. Thus, the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Bigatti

The purpose of this short note was to outline the current status, then in 2011, of some research programs aiming at a categorification of parts of A.Connes' non-commutative geometry and to provide an outlook on some possible subsequent…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Paolo Bertozzini , Roberto Conti , Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Nicolas Franco

We give a general and nontechnical review of some aspects of noncommutative geometry as a tool to understand the structure of spacetime. We discuss the motivations for the constructions of a noncommutative geometry, and the passage from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-04 Fedele Lizzi

It is well-known that global hyperbolicity implies that the Lorentzian distance is finite and continuous. By carefully analysing the causes of discontinuity of the Lorentzian distance, we show that in most other respects the finiteness and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Adam Rennie , Ben Whale

The question whether a Riemannian manifold is geodesically connected can be studied from geometrical as well as variational methods, and accurate results can be obtained by using the associated distance and related properties of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Miguel Sanchez

A short historical review is made of some recent literature in the field of noncommutative geometry, especially the efforts to add a gravitational field to noncommutative models of space-time and to use it as an ultraviolet regulator. An…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Madore

We show how the Riemannian distance on $\mathbb{S}^n_{++}$, the cone of $n\times n$ real symmetric or complex Hermitian positive definite matrices, may be used to naturally define a distance between two such matrices of different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Lek-Heng Lim , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Ke Ye

Formulae for the line-of-sight and transverse comoving distances, proper motion distance, angular diameter distance, luminosity distance, k-correction, distance modulus, comoving volume, lookback time, age, and object intersection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David W. Hogg

In this work, the relativistic phenomena of Lorentz contraction and time dilation are derived using a modified distance formula appropriate for discrete space. This new distance formula is different than Pythagoras's theorem but converges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 David Crouse , Joseph Skufca

We give formulas for calculating the interleaving distance between rectangle persistence modules that depend solely on the geometry of the underlying rectangles. Moreover, we extend our results to calculate the bottleneck distance for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Mehmet Ali Batan , Claudia Landi , Mehmetcik Pamuk

We construct a family of closeness functions on the space of finite volume Lorentzian geometries using the abundance of discrete intervals in the underlying random causal sets. Although strictly weaker than a Lorentzian Gromov-Hausdorff…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Sumati Surya

This paper is a very brief and gentle introduction to non-commutative geometry geared primarily towards physicists and geometers. It starts with a brief historical description of the motivation for non-commutative geometry and then goes on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-20 Ernesto Lupercio

In this paper, starting from the common foundation of Connes' noncommutative geometry (NCG) [1,2,3,4], various possible alternatives in the formulation of a theory of gravity in noncommutative spacetime are discussed in detail. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nguyen Ai Viet

This text is written for the volume of the school/conference "Noncommutative Geometry 2005" held at IPM Tehran. It gives a survey of methods and results in noncommutative geometry, based on a discussion of significant examples of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Alain Connes , Matilde Marcolli

Left-invariant Lorentzian structures on the 2D solvable non-Abelian Lie group are studied. Sectional curvature, attainable sets, Lorentzian length maximizers, distance, spheres, and infinitesimal isometries are described.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Yu. L. Sachkov

Computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for surfaces is a surprisingly hard problem and the only known algorithm is limited to computing it between flat surfaces. We adapt this algorithm to create one for computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Atlas F. Cook , Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled , Jessica Sherette , Carola Wenk

Following the general principles of noncommutative geometry, it is possible to define a metric on the space of pure states of the noncommutative algebra generated by the coordinates. This metric generalizes the usual Riemannian one. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Iochum , T. Krajewski , P. Martinetti

Quantum groups and quantum homogeneous spaces - developed by several authors since the 80's - provide a large class of examples of algebras which for many reasons we interpret as `coordinate algebras' over noncommutative spaces. This…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Francesco D'Andrea