The Ricci curvature for noncommutative three tori

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2020.103717MaRDI QIDQ2186802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rui Dong, Asghar Ghorbanpour, Masoud Khalkhali

Publication date 9 June 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.02977

zbMATH Keywords

curved noncommutative three torusnonconformal metricsscalar and Ricci curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42)

Abstract: We compute the Ricci curvature of a curved noncommutative three torus. The computation is done both for conformal and non-conformal perturbations of the flat metric. To perturb the flat metric, the standard volume form on the noncommutative three torus is perturbed and the corresponding perturbed Laplacian is analyzed. Using Connes' pseudodifferential calculus for the noncommutative tori, we explicitly compute the second term of the short time heat kernel expansion for the perturbed Laplacians on functions and on 1-forms. The Ricci curvature is defined by localizing heat traces suitably. Equivalerntly, it can be defined through special values of localized spectral zeta functions. We also compute the scalar curvatures and compare our results with previous calculations in the conformal case. Finally we compute the classical limit of our formulas and show that they coincide with classical formulas in the commutative case.

Review text

In order to compute the Ricci curvature of a curved noncommutative three torus, the authors consider both the conformal and the non-conformal perturbations of the flat metric. When the flat metric is perturbed, the standard volume form on the noncommutative three torus is also perturbed and hence, the corresponding perturbed Laplacian needs to be investigated. Using Connes' pseudodifferential calculus for the noncommutative tori, the authors explicitly compute the second term of the short time heat kernel expansion for the perturbed Laplacians on functions and on 1-forms, which is enough to define the Ricci functional for the noncommutative three torus. The Ricci curvature is defined by localizing heat traces suitably. The authors compute the scalar curvature of the noncommutative three torus equipped with a non-conformally flat metric and then they compute the Ricci density for this class of metrics. It is important to point out that two of the functions that appear in the expression for scalar curvature, are the same as functions that previously appear in the scalar curvature of the two dimensional curved noncommutative tori. Finally, the authors prove that the classical limit of the obtained formulas coincide with classical formulas in the commutative case.

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