Riemannian curvature of the noncommutative 3-sphere

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Abstract: In order to investigate to what extent the calculus of classical (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds can be extended to a noncommutative setting, we introduce pseudo-Riemannian calculi of modules over noncommutative algebras. In this framework, it is possible to prove an analogue of Levi-Civita's theorem, stating that there exists at most one torsion-free and metric connection for a given (metric) module, satisfying the requirements of a real metric calculus. Furthermore, the corresponding curvature operator has the same symmetry properties as the classical Riemannian curvature. As our main motivating example, we consider a pseudo-Riemannian calculus over the noncommutative 3-sphere and explicitly determine the torsion-free and metric connection, as well as the curvature operator together with its scalar curvature.


The authors study a differential geometry of the non-commutative three-dimensional sphere, i.e., an \(\ast\)-algebra on 4 generators and 7 quadratic relations. They prove an analog of the Levi-Civita theorem and develop a pseudo-Riemannian calculus for such a sphere. A draft of the paper is available at \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07330}.




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