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Levi-Civita's Theorem for Noncommutative Tori
Jonathan Rosenberg Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Abstract:
We show how to define Riemannian metrics and connections on a noncommutative torus in such a way that an analogue of Levi-Civita's theorem on the existence and uniqueness of a Riemannian connection holds. The major novelty is that we need to use two different notions of noncommutative vector field. Levi-Civita's theorem makes it possible to define Riemannian curvature using the usual formulas.
Keywords:
noncommutative torus; noncommutative vector field; Riemannian metric; Levi-Civita connection;
Riemannian curvature; Gauss–Bonnet theorem.
Received: July 26, 2013; in final form November 19, 2013; Published online November 21, 2013
Citation:
Jonathan Rosenberg, “Levi-Civita's Theorem for Noncommutative Tori”, SIGMA, 9 (2013), 071, 9 pp.
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