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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 F2\Bbb F_2 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 n3n\le 3, finding a rich moduli of examples for n=3n=3 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 Δ=( , )d\Delta=(\ ,\ )\nabla{\rm d} on our models and characterise when it has a massive eigenvector.

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@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

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