Modular index invariants of Mumford curves

Authors Matilde Marcolli, A. Rennie, A. L. Carey

Publication date 24 August 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3157

graph \(C^*\)-algebra Mumford curve zhyvot circle action

Abstract: We continue an investigation initiated by Consani-Marcolli of the relation between the algebraic geometry of p-adic Mumford curves and the noncommutative geometry of graph C*-algebras associated to the action of the uniformizing p-adic Schottky group on the Bruhat-Tits tree. We reconstruct invariants of Mumford curves related to valuations of generators of the associated Schottky group, by developing a graphical theory for KMS weights on the associated graph C*-algebra, and using modular index theory for KMS weights. We give explicit examples of the construction of graph weights for low genus Mumford curves. We then show that the theta functions of Mumford curves, and the induced currents on the Bruhat-Tits tree, define functions that generalize the graph weights. We show that such inhomogeneous graph weights can be constructed from spectral flows, and that one can reconstruct theta functions from such graphical data.

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This very interesting paper deals with an interplay between the geometry of algebraic curves over the field of \(p\)-adic numbers (the Mumford curves) and invariants of certain \(C^*\)-algebras attached to such curves.NEWLINENEWLINERecall that, if \(K\) is a finite extension of the field \({\mathbb Q}_p\) of \(p\)-adic numbers, then an algebraic curve \(X(K)\) over \(K\) admits the Mumford uniformization \(X(K)\cong \partial\Delta_K / \Gamma\), where \(\Gamma\subset PGL(2, K)\) is a \(p\)-adic Schottky group and \(\partial\Delta_K\) the space of ends of the Bruhat-Tits tree \(\Delta_K\) associated to \(\Gamma\), see [\textit{D.~Mumford}, Compos. Math. 24, 129--174 (1972; Zbl 0228.14011)]. (The reader can think of \(\Delta_K\) as a \(p\)-adic analog of the hyperbolic upper space \({\mathbb H}^3\) and \(\Gamma\) as an analog of the Fuchsian group acting on \({\mathbb H}^2\cong\partial {\mathbb H}^3\).)NEWLINENEWLINEOne can associate to the infinite (directed) tree \(\Delta_K/\Gamma\) a certain \(C^*\)-algebra \(C^*(\Delta_K/\Gamma)\) known as the graph algebra, see, e.g., [\textit{I.~Raeburn}, Graph algebras. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (2005; Zbl 1079.46002)]. Moreover, there exists an element of the group \(\mathrm{Aut}(C^*(\Delta_K/\Gamma))\) called by the authors a zhyvot circle action (`zhyvot' means in Russian `belly' of the graph \(\Delta_K\)).NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper says that a certain index of the zhyvot action on \(C^*(\Delta_K/\Gamma)\) determines (and is determined by) the length of closed geodesics of the Mumford curve \(X(K)\). A draft of the paper is available at \url{arXiv:0905.3157}.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 1243.14002].

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