Twisted quadrics and algebraic submanifolds in R^n

DOI10.1007/S11040-020-09361-3zbMATH Open1454.81116arXiv2005.03509OpenAlexW3103775056MaRDI QIDQ2211092FDOQ2211092

Authors: Gaetano Fiore, Davide Franco, Thomas Weber

Publication date: 12 November 2020

Published in: Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a general procedure to construct noncommutative deformations of an algebraic submanifold

M

of

m a t h b b R^{n}

, specializing the procedure [G. Fiore, T. Weber, Twisted submanifolds of

m a t h b b R^{n}

, arXiv:2003.03854] valid for smooth submanifolds. We use the framework of twisted differential geometry of Aschieri et al. (Class. Quantum Grav. 23, 1883-1911, 2006), whereby the commutative pointwise product is replaced by the

s t a r

-product determined by a Drinfel'd twist. We actually simultaneously construct noncommutative deformations of all the algebraic submanifolds

M_{c}

that are level sets of the

f^{a} (x)

, where

f^{a} (x) = 0

are the polynomial equations solved by the points of

M

, employing twists based on the Lie algebra

X i_{t}

of vector fields that are tangent to all the

M_{c}

. The twisted Cartan calculus is automatically equivariant under twisted

X i_{t}

. If we endow

m a t h b b R^{n}

with a metric, then twisting and projecting to normal or tangent components commute, projecting the Levi-Civita connection to the twisted

M

is consistent, and in particular a twisted Gauss theorem holds, provided the twist is based on Killing vector fields. Twisted algebraic quadrics can be characterized in terms of generators and