Spectral metric and Einstein functionals (Q6098438)

``An eminent spectral scheme that generates geometric objects on manifolds such as volume, scalar curvature and other scalar combinations of curvture tensors and their derivatives prima facie is the small-time asymptotic expansion of the (localised) trace of heat kernel... the coefficients of this expansion can be transmuted into certain values or residues of the (localised) zeta function of the Laplacian. In turn, they can be expressed using the Wodzicki residue... which is a unique (up to a multiplication by a constant) tracial state on the algebra of pseudo-differential operators on a complex vector bundle over a compact manifold...'' The authors generalize these spectral methods to recover other important geometrical objects, namely, the metric tensor \(g\), its dual, Einstein tensor \(G\) and its dual. For this aim, the authors employ the ``Wodzicki residue of a suitable power of the Laplace type operator multiplied by a pair of other differential operators.'' The authors ``demonstrate that the Wodzicki residue density recovers the tensors \(g\) and \(G\) as certain bilinear functionals of vector fields on a manifold \(M\), while there dual tensors are recovered as the density of bilinear functionals of differential one-forms on \(M\)''. Further, the authors propose an extension of the considered functionals to the noncommutative setting. The authors ``prove that the spectral Einstein tensor vanishes identically for the conformally rescaled geometry of the noncommutative \(2\)-torus... and provide an explicit and compact formula for the spectral Einstein and metric tensors for the \(4\)-torus.'' Further, the authors ``propose the generalisation of the spectral metric and Einstein functionals on noncommutative differential forms for spectral triples on conformally rescaled noncommutative \(2\) and \(4\)-tori, showing that also the contravariant spectral Einstein functional vanishes for the conformally rescaled spectral triple on noncommutative \(2\)-torus.... and provide an explicit formula for the spectral metric and Einstein functionals for the noncommutative \(4\)-torus''. Furthermore, the authors ``discuss also these functionals for finitely summable and regular spectral triples and illustrate how these functionals behave under tensoring a finite summable regular spectral triple with the simplest non-trivial finite triple on \(\mathbb{C}^2\).''