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Causality in noncommutative two-sheeted space-times

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology math.MP

Abstract

We investigate the causal structure of two-sheeted space-times using the tools of Lorentzian spectral triples. We show that the noncommutative geometry of these spaces allows for causal relations between the two sheets. The computation is given in details when the sheet is a 2- or 4-dimensional globally hyperbolic spin manifold. The conclusions are then generalised to a point-dependent distance between the two sheets resulting from the fluctuations of the Dirac operator.

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@article{arxiv.1502.04683,
  title  = {Causality in noncommutative two-sheeted space-times},
  author = {Nicolas Franco and Michał Eckstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04683},
  year   = {2015}
}

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26 pages, 2 figures

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