Isospectral deformations of Eguchi-Hanson spaces as nonunital spectral triples (Q842480)

In the unital case, Connes provides a set of axioms for unital spectral triples so to define compact noncommutative spin manifolds. Rennie and Várilly explicitly reconstruct compact commutative spin manifolds from slightly modified axioms. As to the nonunital case, a complete generalization considering these axioms is not known yet. The author obtains a nonunital example by isospectral deformation of Eguchi-Hanson spaces. Isospectral deformation is a simple method to deform a commutative spectral triple. It traces back to the Moyal type of deformation from quantum mechanics. Rieffel's insight is to consider Lie group actions on function spaces and hence explain the Moyal product between functions by oscillatory integrals over the group actions. Apart from the well-known Moyal planes and noncommutative tori, this scheme allows more general deformations. \textit{A. Connes} and \textit{G. Landi} [Commun. Math. Phys. 221, No.~1, 141--159 (2001; Zbl 0997.81045)] deformed spheres and more general compact spin manifolds with isometry groups containing a two-torus. \textit{A. Connes} and \textit{M. Dubois-Violette} [Commun. Math. Phys. 230, No.~3, 539--579 (2002; Zbl 1026.58005)] observed that this works equally well for noncompact spin manifolds. As in the appendix of [\textit{A. Rennie}, \(K\)-Theory 28, No.~2, 127--165 (2003; Zbl 1027.46088)], it is possible to fit such noncompact examples in the nonunital framework there. The deformation of Eguchi-Hanson spaces is obtained by these methods and serves as an example of a nonunital triple. The Eguchi-Hanson spaces are of interest in both Riemannian geometry and physics. Geometrically, they are the simplest asymptotically locally Euclidean spaces, for which a complete classification is provided by Kronheimer through the method of hyper-Kähler quotients. This construction realizes the family of Eguchi-Hanson spaces as a resolution of a singular conifold. In physics, Eguchi-Hanson spaces are known as gravitational instantons. Due to their hyper-Kähler structure, the Atiyah, Drinfeld, Hitchin and Manin construction is generalized on the Eguchi-Hanson spaces in an elegant way. The nonunital spectral triple from isospectral deformation of Eguchi-Hanson spaces may link various perspectives. The author investigates the locality, smoothness and summability conditions of these triples and further see how they fit into the modified geometric conditions for nonunital spectral triples.