The disappearance of causality at small scale in almost-commutative manifolds

DOI10.1063/1.4985929zbMATH Open1384.46050arXiv1411.0878OpenAlexW2964000776MaRDI QIDQ5366982FDOQ5366982

Authors: Nadir Bizi, F. Besnard 

Publication date: 10 October 2017

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper continues the investigations of noncommutative ordered spaces put forward by one of the authors. These metaphoric spaces are defined dually by so-called emph{isocones} which generalize to the noncommutative setting the convex cones of order-preserving functions. In this paper we will consider the case of isocones inside almost-commutative algebras of the form $calC(M)otimes{A}_f$, with $M$ a compact metrizable space. We will give a family of isocones in such an algebra with the property that every possible isocone is contained in exactly one member of the family. We conjecture that this family is in fact a complete classification, a hypothesis related with the noncommutative Stone-Weierstrass conjecture. We also obtain that every isocone in $calC(M)otimes{A}_f$, with $A_f$ noncommutative, induces an order relation on $M$ with the property that every point in $M$ lies in a neighbourhood of incomparable points. Thus, if the causal order relation on spacetime is induced by an isocone in an almost-commutative (but not commutative) algebra, then causality must disappear at small scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0878

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Ordered normed spaces (46B40) Other ``noncommutative mathematics based on (C^*)-algebra theory (46L89) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Convex sets and cones of operators (47L07) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75) Other ``topological linear spaces (convergence spaces, ranked spaces, spaces with a metric taking values in an ordered structure more general than (mathbb{R}), etc.) (46A19)

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