Spin foams and noncommutative geometry

NONCOMMUTATIVE RIEMANNIAN AND SPIN GEOMETRY OF THE STANDARD q-SPHERE

We study the quantum sphere Cq [S] as a quantum Riemannian manifold in the quantum frame bundle approach. We exhibit its 2-dimensional cotangent bundle as a direct sum Ω ⊕ Ω in a double complex. We find the natural metric, volume form, Hodge * operator, Laplace and Maxwell operators. We show that the q-monopole as spin connection induces a natural Levi-Civita type connection and find its Ricci ...

Noncommutative geometry

Noncommutative Geometry and Quantization

The purpose of these lectures is to survey several aspects of noncommutative geometry, with emphasis on its applicability to particle physics and quantum field theory. By now, it is a commonplace statement that spacetime at short length —or high energy— scales is not the Cartesian continuum of macroscopic experience, and that older methods of working with functions on manifolds must be rethough...

Noncommutative geometry and reality

We introduce the notion of real structure in our spectral geometry. This notion is motivated by Atiyah’s KR-theory and by Tomita’s involution J. It allows us to remove two unpleasant features of the “Connes-Lott” description of the standard model, namely, the use of bivector potentials and the asymmetry in the Poincare duality and in the unimodularity condition.

Noncommutative Geometry and Physics

The two existing theories which successfully encode our knowledge of space-time are : • General Relativity • The Standard Model General relativity describes space-time as far as large scales are concerned (cf. Figure 1 and [2] for many more suggestive thoughts and pictures) and is based on the geometric paradigm discovered by Riemann. It replaces the flat (pseudo) metric of Poincaré, Einstein, ...