Connections on Lie algebroids and on derivation-based noncommutative geometry

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2011.11.002MaRDI QIDQ2428161zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 24 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.6106

connection differential algebra differential geometry Lie algebroid noncommutative geometry

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: In this paper we show how connections and their generalizations on transitive Lie algebroids are related to the notion of connections in the framework of the derivation-based noncommutative geometry. In order to compare the two constructions, we emphasize the algebraic approach of connections on Lie algebroids, using a suitable differential calculus. Two examples allow this comparison: on the one hand, the Atiyah Lie algebroid of a principal fiber bundle and, on the other hand, the space of derivations of the algebra of endomorphisms of a

S L (n, m a t h b b C)

-vector bundle. Gauge transformations are also considered in this comparison.

Review text

In this paper, the relations between ordinary connections on principal fiber bundles and two different generalizations of this notion are studied. These generalizations are the following: on the one hand, connections in the framework of the derivation-based noncommutative geometry (see [\textit{A. Connes}, Noncommutative geometry. Transl. from the French by Sterling Berberian. San Diego, CA: Academic Press (1994; Zbl 0818.46076)]), where the commutative algebra is considered as a substitute for a principal fiber bundle together with its gauge group. On the other hand, the connection on Lie algebroids (see [\textit{K.C.H. Mackenzie}, The general theory of Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005; Zbl 1078.58011)]) given by a natural notion of covariant derivatives can be defined, where elements of a Lie algebroid are mapped into first order differential operators on a vector bundle. In order to compare these two constructions, the authors emphasize an algebraic approach of connections on Atiyah Lie algebroids: the space of basic forms in a larger differential calculus which involves the space of de Rham forms on the underlying principal fiber bundle. The authors consider the derivation-based noncommutative geometry of the algebra of endomorphisms of an \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})\)-vector bundle for which the space of derivations of this algebra is a transitive Lie algebroid and they prove that it is isomorphic to the Atiyah-Lie algebroid associated to the the underlying \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})\)-principal fibre bundle. Moreover, Theorems 4.10 and 4.11 show that the two notions of generalized connections in this context are the same. Gauge transformations are also considered in this comparison.

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