On noncommutative and pseudo-Riemannian geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2005.01.005MaRDI QIDQ2581849zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alexander Strohmaier

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0110001

zbMATH Keywords

noncommutative geometrynoncommutative toripseudo-Riemannian spin manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces with indefinite inner product (Kre?n spaces, Pontryagin spaces, etc.) (46C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Infinite-dimensional manifolds (58B99)

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a semi-Riemannian spectral triple which generalizes the notion of spectral triple and allows for a treatment of semi-Riemannian manifolds within a noncommutative setting. It turns out that the relevant spaces in noncommutative semi-Riemannian geometry are not Hilbert spaces any more but Krein spaces, and Dirac operators are Krein-selfadjoint. We show that the noncommutative tori can be endowed with a semi-Riemannian structure in this way. For the noncommutative tori as well as for semi-Riemannian spin manifolds the dimension, the signature of the metric, and the integral of a function can be recovered from the spectral data.

Review text

The author introduces a notion of pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple, which is a generalization of Connes' notion of spectral triple. The metric information of a Riemann manifold can be encoded in a spectral triple \((A, H, D)\), where \(A\) is the algebra of complex valued smooth functions on \(M\), \(H\) is the Hilbert space of square integrable spinor sections and \(D\) is the classical Dirac operator. In the definition of the spectral triple \((A, H, D)\) the operator \(D\) should be selfadjoint. In the case of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds Dirac type operators are not selfadjoint. However there exists a Krein space structure such that there are Krein-selfadjoint Dirac type operators. This result motivates the notion of pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple introduced in this paper. A pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple consists of an involutive algebra \(A\) of bounded operators acting on a Krein space \(H\) and a Krein-selfadjoint operator \(D\). For example, if \(M\) is a Lorentzian spin manifold, \(A\) is the algebra of smooth functions on \(M\), \(D\) is the Dirac operator which acts on the Krein space \(H\) of square integrable sections of the spinor bundle, then \((A, D, H)\) is a pseudo-Riemannian spectral triple. The author endows the noncommutative tori with pseudo-Riemannian spectral triples and proves that for noncommutative tori as well as for pseudo-Riemannian spin manifolds there is a canonical notion of integration and one can recover the signature of the metric from the spectral data.

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