ASPECTS OF NONCOMMUTATIVE LORENTZIAN GEOMETRY FOR GLOBALLY HYPERBOLIC SPACETIMES

Author:

MORETTI VALTER1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento, I.N.d.A.M, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica "F.Severi", unità locale di Trento, I.N.F.N., Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo (TN), Italy

Abstract

Connes' functional formula of the Riemannian distance is generalized to the Lorentzian case using the so-called Lorentzian distance, the d'Alembert operator and the causal functions of a globally-hyperbolic spacetime. As a step of the presented machinery, a proof of the almost-everywhere smoothness of the Lorentzian distance considered as a function of one of the two arguments is given. Afterwards, using a C*-algebra approach, the spacetime causal structure and the Lorentzian distance are generalized into noncommutative structures giving rise to a Lorentzian version of part of Connes' noncommutative geometry. The generalized noncommutative spacetime consists of a direct set of Hilbert spaces and a related class of C*-algebras of operators. In each algebra a convex cone made of self-adjoint elements is selected which generalizes the class of causal functions. The generalized events, called loci, are realized as the elements of the inductive limit of the spaces of the algebraic states on the C*-algebras. A partial-ordering relation between pairs of loci generalizes the causal order relation in spacetime. A generalized Lorentz distance of loci is defined by means of a class of densely-defined operators which play the role of a Lorentzian metric. Specializing back the formalism to the usual globally-hyperbolic spacetime, it is found that compactly-supported probability measures give rise to a non-pointwise extension of the concept of events.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Mathematical Physics,Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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