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Curvature and Weitzenbock formula for spectral triples

Operator Algebras 2024-06-28 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Using the Levi-Civita connection on the noncommutative differential one-forms of a spectral triple (\B,,˝\D)(\B,\H,\D), we define the full Riemann curvature tensor, the Ricci curvature tensor and scalar curvature. We give a definition of Dirac spectral triples and derive a general Weitzenbock formula for them. We apply these tools to θ\theta-deformations of compact Riemannian manifolds. We show that the Riemann and Ricci tensors transform naturally under θ\theta-deformation, whereas the connection Laplacian, Clifford representation of the curvature and the scalar curvature are all invariant under deformation.

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@article{arxiv.2404.07957,
  title  = {Curvature and Weitzenbock formula for spectral triples},
  author = {Bram Mesland and Adam Rennie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07957},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

29 pages. Typos corrected and references updated

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