Transversals, duality, and irrational rotation

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Abstract: An early result of Noncommutative Geometry was Connes' observation in the 1980's that the Dirac-Dolbeault cycle for the 2-torus mathbbT2, which induces a Poincar'e self-duality for mathbbT2, can be 'quantized' to give a spectral triple and a K-homology class in KK0(AhetaotimesAheta,mathbbC) providing the co-unit for a Poincar'e self-duality for the irrational rotation algebra Aheta for any hetainmathbbRsetminusmathbbQ. This spectral triple has been extensively studied since. Connes' proof, however, relied on a K-theory computation and does not supply a representative cycle for the unit of this duality. Since such representatives are vital in applications of duality, we supply such a cycle in unbounded form in this article. Our approach is to construct, for any non-trivial element g of the modular group, a finitely generated projective module mathcalLg over AhetaotimesAheta by using a reduction-to-a-transversal argument of Muhly, Renault, and Williams, applied to a pair of Kronecker foliations along lines of slope heta and g(heta), using the fact that these flows are transverse to each other. We then compute Connes' dual of [mathcalLg] for g upper triangular, and prove that we obtain an invertible in KK0(Aheta,Aheta), represented by what one might regard as a noncommutative bundle of Dirac-Schr"odinger operators. An application of mathbbZ-equivariant Bott Periodicity proves that twisting the module by the family gives the requisite spectral cycle for the unit, thus proving self-duality for Aheta with both unit and co-unit represented by spectral cycles.




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