A new look at Levi-Civita connection in noncommutative geometry

Abstract

We prove the existence and uniqueness of Levi-Civita connections for strongly [Formula: see text]-compatible pseudo-Riemannian metrics on tame differential calculi. Such pseudo-Riemannian metrics properly contain the classes of bilinear metrics as well as their conformal deformations. This extends the previous results in [J. Bhowmick, D. Goswami and S. Mukhopadhyay, Levi-Civita connections for a class of spectral triples, Lett. Math. Phys. 110 (2020) 835–884] and [J. Bhowmick, D. Goswami and G. Landi, On the Koszul formula in noncommutative geometry, Rev. Math. Phys. 32(10) (2020) 2050032].