Möbius transformations in noncommutative conformal geometry
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Publication:1300616
DOI10.1007/S002200050548zbMATH Open0946.58008arXivphysics/9710005OpenAlexW1963886755MaRDI QIDQ1300616FDOQ1300616
Authors: V. Pereyra 
Publication date: 18 October 2000
Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the projective linear group PGL_2(A), associated with an arbitrary algebra A, and its subgroups from the point of view of their action on the space of involutions in A. This action formally resembles Moebius transformations known from complex geometry. By specifying A to be an algebra of bounded operators in a Hilbert space H, we rediscover the Moebius group defined by Connes and study its action on the space of Fredholm modules over the algebra A. There is an induced action on the K-homology of A, which turns out to be trivial. Moreover, this action leads naturally to a simpler object, the polarized module underlying a given Fredholm module, and we discuss this relation in detail. Any polarized module can be lifted to a Fredholm module, and the set of different lifts forms a category, whose morphisms are given by generalized Moebius tranformations. We present an example of a polarized module canonically associated with the differentiable structure of a smooth manifold V. Using our lifting procedure we obtain a class of Fredholm modules characterizing the conformal structures on V. Fredholm modules obtained in this way are a special case of those constructed by Connes, Sullivan and Teleman.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9710005
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