A New Approach to Functional Analysis on Graphs, the Connes-Spectral Triple and its Distance Function

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Publication date: 4 August 1997

Abstract: Continuing previous work we develop a certain piece of functional analysis on general graphs and use it to create what Connes calls a 'spectral triple', i.e. a Hilbert space structure, a representation of a certain (function) algebra and a socalled 'Dirac operator', encoding part of the geometric/algebraic properties of the graph. We derive in particular an explicit expression for the 'Connes-distance function' and show that it is in general bounded from above by the ordinary distance on graphs (being, typically, strictly smaller(!) than the latter). We exhibit, among other things, the underlying reason for this phenomenon.

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