Digital finite quantum Riemannian geometries
Differential Geometry
2021-11-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We study bimodule quantum Riemannian geometries over the field of two elements as the extreme case of a finite-field adaptation of noncommutative-geometric methods for physics. We classify all parallelisable such geometries for coordinate algebras up to vector space dimension , finding a rich moduli of examples for and top form degree 2, including many that are not flat. Their coordinate algebras are commutative but their differentials are not. We also study the quantum Laplacian on our models and characterise when it has a massive eigenvector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.08492,
title = {Digital finite quantum Riemannian geometries},
author = {Shahn Majid and Anna Pachol},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08492},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
37 pages latex, one figure. Corrected some of the curvature formulae in line with final version in press