Divided differences in noncommutative geometry: rearrangement lemma, functional calculus and expansional formula

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Abstract: We state a generalization of the Connes-Tretkoff-Moscovici Rearrangement Lemma and give a surprisingly simple (almost trivial) proof of it. Secondly, we put on a firm ground the multivariable functional calculus used implicitly in the Rearrangement Lemma and elsewhere in the recent modular curvature paper by Connes and Moscovici. Furthermore, we show that the fantastic formulas connecting the one and two variable modular functions of loc. cit. are just examples of the plenty recursion formulas which can be derived from the calculus of divided differences. We show that the functions derived from the main integral occurring in the Rearrangement Lemma can be expressed in terms of divided differences of the Logarithm, generalizing the "modified Logarithm" of Connes-Tretkoff. Finally, we show that several expansion formulas related to the Magnus expansion have a conceptual explanation in terms of a multivariable functional calculus applied to divided differences.


The rearrangement lemma plays an important role in the geometry of noncommutative tori, see [\textit{A. Connes} and \textit{P. Tretkoff}, in: Noncommutative geometry, arithmetic, and related topics. Proceedings of the 21st meeting of the Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI) held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 23--26, 2009. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 141--158 (2011; Zbl 1251.46037)] and [\textit{A. Connes} and \textit{H. Moscovici}, J. Am. Math. Soc. 27, No. 3, 639--684 (2014; Zbl 1332.46070)]. The author of the paper under review simplifies the proof and extends the lemma using the calculus of divided differences.











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