Towards a Monge-Kantorovich metric in noncommutative geometry

DOI10.1007/S10958-013-1648-3zbMATH Open1300.58003arXiv1210.6573OpenAlexW2172071111MaRDI QIDQ744539FDOQ744539

Authors: Pierre Martinetti 

Publication date: 25 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate whether the identification between Connes' spectral distance in noncommutative geometry and the Monge-Kantorovich distance of order 1 in the theory of optimal transport - that has been pointed out by Rieffel in the commutative case - still makes sense in a noncommutative framework. To this aim, given a spectral triple (A, H, D) with noncommutative A, we introduce a "Monge-Kantorovich"-like distance W_D on the space of states of A, taking as a cost function the spectral distance d_D between pure states. We show in full generality that d_D is never greater than W_D, and exhibit several examples where the equality actually holds true, in particular on the unit two-ball viewed as the state space of the algebra of complex 2-by-2 matrices. We also discuss W_D in a two-sheet model (product of a manifold by C^2), pointing towards a possible interpretation of the Higgs field as a cost function that does not vanish on the diagonal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6573

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportnoncommutative geometryMonge-Kantorovich distanceConnes's spectral distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability theory on linear topological spaces (60B11) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Trade models (91B60)

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