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Reconstructing manifolds from truncated spectral triples

Mathematical Physics 2020-06-16 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We explore the geometric implications of introducing a spectral cut-off on Riemannian manifolds. This is naturally phrased in the framework of non-commutative geometry, where we work with spectral triples that are \emph{truncated} by spectral projections of Dirac-type operators. We prove that the underlying Riemannian manifold is the Gromov-Hausdorff limit of the metric spaces we associate to its truncations. This leads us to propose a computational algorithm that allows us to recover these metric spaces from the finite-dimensional truncated spectral data. We subsequently develop a technique for embedding the resulting metric graphs in Euclidean space to asymptotically recover an isometric embedding of the limit. We test these algorithms on the truncated sphere and a recently investigated perturbation thereof.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09227,
  title  = {Reconstructing manifolds from truncated spectral triples},
  author = {Lisa Glaser and Abel B. Stern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09227},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 5 figures v2 major changes to improve presentation figures +1

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