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A generalized Lichnerowicz formula, the Wodzicki residue and gravity (English)
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18 September 1996
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Given a Dirac operator, associated with a metric connection, the authors prove a formula which expresses the square of the Dirac operator \(\widetilde{D}\) of a metric connection as the sum of the Laplace operator of a suitable connection and a zeroth-order differential operator \(F\), in such a way that an explicit expression for \(F\) can be given. This is used to compute the subleading term of the expansion of the heat kernel of \(\widetilde{D}^2\), which in turn yields the Wodzicki residue of the operator \(\widetilde{D}^{-2n+2}\), where \(2n\) is the dimension of the base manifold. The residue corresponds to a gravitational Lagrangian which is the sum of the scalar curvature and a term quadratic in the torsion.
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noncommutative differential geometry
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gravity
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Dirac operator
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