Linear connections in non-commutative geometry

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Abstract: A construction is proposed for linear connections on non-commutative algebras. The construction relies on a generalisation of the Leibnitz rules of commutative geometry and uses the bimodule structure of Omega1. A special role is played by the extension to the framework of non-commutative geometry of the permutation of two copies of Omega1. The construction of the linear connection as well as the definition of torsion and curvature is first proposed in the setting of the derivations based differential calculus of Dubois- Violette and then a generalisation to the framework proposed by Connes as well as other non-commutative differential calculi is suggested. The covariant derivative obtained admits an extension to the tensor product of several copies of Omega1. These constructions are illustrated with the example of the algebra of nimesn matrices.





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