Discrete Riemannian geometry
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Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)
Abstract: Within a framework of noncommutative geometry, we develop an analogue of (pseudo) Riemannian geometry on finite and discrete sets. On a finite set, there is a counterpart of the continuum metric tensor with a simple geometric interpretation. The latter is based on a correspondence between first order differential calculi and digraphs. Arrows originating from a vertex span its (co)tangent space. If the metric is to measure length and angles at some point, it has to be taken as an element of the left-linear tensor product of the space of 1-forms with itself, and not as an element of the (non-local) tensor product over the algebra of functions. It turns out that linear connections can always be extended to this left tensor product, so that metric compatibility can be defined in the same way as in continuum Riemannian geometry. In particular, in the case of the universal differential calculus on a finite set, the Euclidean geometry of polyhedra is recovered from conditions of metric compatibility and vanishing torsion. In our rather general framework (which also comprises structures which are far away from continuum differential geometry), there is in general nothing like a Ricci tensor or a curvature scalar. Because of the non-locality of tensor products (over the algebra of functions) of forms, corresponding components (with respect to some module basis) turn out to be rather non-local objects. But one can make use of the parallel transport associated with a connection to `localize' such objects and in certain cases there is a distinguished way to achieve this. This leads to covariant components of the curvature tensor which then allow a contraction to a Ricci tensor. In the case of a differential calculus associated with a hypercubic lattice we propose a new discrete analogue of the (vacuum) Einstein equations.
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