Dirac operators and spectral triples for some fractal sets built on curves (Q2461782)

The authors construct spectral triples systematically, such as Dirac operators, for a \(C^*\)-algebra. There are 9 sections: 1. Notation and preliminaries; 2. the spectral triple for a circle; 3. The interval triple; 4. The \(r\)-triple, \(ST_r\); 5. Sums of curve triples; 6. Parameterized graphs; 7. Infinite trees; 8. The Sierpiński gasket: Hausdorff measure and geodesic metric; 9. Concluding remarks. The triples are countable sums of triples where each summand is based on a curve in the space. Several fractals, such as a finitely summable infinite tree and the Sierpiński gasket, fit naturally within the framework. In the cases, the authors show that the spectral triples do describe the geodesic distance and the Minkowski dimension as well as the complex fractal dimensions of the space. Furthermore, in the case of the Sierpiński gasket, the associated Dixmier-type trace coincides with the normalized Hausdorff measure of dimension \({\ln 3\over\ln 2}\).