Temporal Lorentzian Spectral Triples
Abstract
We present the notion of temporal Lorentzian spectral triple which is an extension of the notion of pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple with a way to ensure that the signature of the metric is Lorentzian. A temporal Lorentzian spectral triple corresponds to a specific 3+1 decomposition of a possibly noncommutative Lorentzian space. This structure introduces a notion of global time in noncommutative geometry. As an example, we construct a temporal Lorentzian spectral triple over a Moyal--Minkowski spacetime. We show that, when time is commutative, the algebra can be extended to unbounded elements. Using such an extension, it is possible to define a Lorentzian distance formula between pure states with a well-defined noncommutative formulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.6575,
title = {Temporal Lorentzian Spectral Triples},
author = {Nicolas Franco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6575},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
25 pages, a proposition has been added (Prop. 11) concerning the recovering of the Lorentzian signature, final version