Truncated geometry on the circle

DOI10.1007/S11005-022-01514-5MaRDI QIDQ2114550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Hekkelman

Publication date 15 March 2022

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13865

zbMATH Keywords

Gromov-Hausdorff convergence noncommutative geometry pure state space state space Toeplitz matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toeplitz, Cauchy, and related matrices (15B05) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34)

Abstract: In this letter we prove that the pure state space on the

n i m e s n

complex Toeplitz matrices converges in Gromov-Hausdorff sense to the state space on

C (S^{1})

as

n

grows to infinity, if we equip these sets with the metrics defined by the Connes distance formula for their respective natural Dirac operators. A direct consequence of this fact is that the set of measures on

S^{1}

with density functions

c p r o d_{j = 1}^{n} (1 - c o s (t - h e t a_{j}))

is dense in the set of all positive Borel measures on

S^{1}

in the weak

^{*}

topology.

Review text

In the operator algebraic approach to noncommutative geometry or topology, a unital C*-algebra \(A\) is viewed as the function algebra of a ``virtual compact noncommutative space or so-called a compact quantum space, naturally suggested by the fact that unital commutative C*-algebras are exactly of the form \(C\left( X\right) \equiv C\left( X;\mathbb{C}\right) \) for some compact Hausdorff space \(X\) or so-called a compact classical space. Since such a topological space \(X\) is exactly the pure state space of the C*-algebra \(C\left( X\right) \) equipped with the weak*-topology, the pure state space \(\mathcal{P}\left( A\right) \) of a unital C*-algebra \(A\) together with its compact weak*-topology is an important structure of \(A\) reflecting the elusive corresponding quantum space. From the viewpoint of deformation quantization, people have been interested in theories and examples of a sequence or net of quantum algebras \(A\) approximating a classical algebra \(C\left( X\right) \) in various meaningful senses. One meaningfully interesting approximation is in terms of the pure state space \(\mathcal{P}\left( A\right) \) with its weak*-topology metrised by the Connes distance arising from some spectral triple of \(A\) approaching a compact metric space \(X\) with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between compact metric spaces. The main result of this paper is to establish that for the finite-dimensional C*-algebras \(C\left( S^{1}\right) ^{\left( n\right) }=P_{n}C^{\ast}\left( \mathbb{Z}\right) P_{n}\) of Toeplitz operators on \(\mathbb{C}^{n}\) truncated from the concrete group C*-algebra \(C^{\ast}\left( \mathbb{Z}\right) \subset\mathcal{B}\left( \ell^{2}\left( \mathbb{Z}\right) \right) \) by the orthogonal projection \(P_{n}\) from \(\ell^{2}\left( \mathbb{Z}\right) \) onto \(\mathbb{C}^{n}=\ell^{2}\left( \left\{ 1,2,..,n\right\} \right) \), the pure state space \(\mathcal{P}\left( C\left( S^{1}\right) ^{\left( n\right) }\right) \) metrised by some concrete Connes distance converges to the state space \(\mathcal{S}\left( C\left( S^{1}\right) \right) =\mathcal{S}\left( C^{\ast}\left( \mathbb{Z}\right) \right) \) metrised by the Monge-Kantorovich metric, as \(n\) goes to \(\infty\), with respect to the Gromov-Hausdorff distance.

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