Spectral triples and the geometry of fractals

DOI10.4171/JNCG/91MaRDI QIDQ426732zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Erik Christensen, Cristina Ivan, Elmar Schrohe

Publication date 12 June 2012

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3081

zbMATH Keywords

K-homologynon commutative geometrySierpiński gasketspectral triple

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractals (28A80) Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34)

Abstract: For each K-homolgy element of the Sierpinski gasket we construct a spectral triple which will generate that element. We show that there must be certain limits on the choice of the K-homology element if the geometric properties of the gasket shall be recoverable from that spectral triple. For a big subgroup of the K-homology group we show that our spectral triples will recover the metric, the dimension and the Hausdorff measure on the gaket.

Review text

Summary: We construct spectral triples for the Sierpinski gasket as infinite sums of unbounded Fredholm modules associated with the holes in the gasket and investigate their properties. For each element in the K-homology group we find a representative induced by one of our spectral triples. Not all of these triples, however, will have the right geometric properties. If we want the metric induced by the spectral triple to give the geodesic distance, then we will have to include a certain minimal family of unbounded Fredholm modules. If we want the eigenvalues of the associated generalized Dirac operator to have the right summability properties, then we get limitations on the number of summands that can be included. If we want the Dixmier trace of the spectral triple to coincide with a multiple of the Hausdorff measure, then we must impose conditions on the distribution of the summands over the gasket. For the elements of a large subclass of the K-homology group, however, the representatives are induced by triples having the desired geometric properties. We finally show that the same techniques can be applied to the Sierpinski pyramid.

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