A building block of non-commutative geometry is the observation that most of the geometric information of a compact Riemannian spin manifold M is encoded within its Dirac operator D. Especially via Connes' distance formula one is able to extract from the spectral properties of D the geodesic distance on M. In this paper we investigate the distance d encoded within a covariiant Dirac operator on a trivial U (n)-fiber bundle over the circle with arbitrary connection. It turns out that the connected components of d are tori whose dimension is given by the holonomy of the connection. For n = 2 we explicitly compute d on all the connected components. For n >= 2 we restrict to a given fiber and find that the distance is given by the trace of the module of a matrix. The latest is defined by the holonomy and the coordinate of the points under consideration. This paper extends to arbitrary n and arbitrary connection the results obtained in a previous work for U(2)-bundle with constant connection. It confirms interesting properties of the spectral distance with respect to another distance naturally associated to connection, namely the horizontal or Carnot-Caratheodory distance d(H). Especially in case the connection has irrational components, the connected components for d are the closure of the connected components of dH within the Euclidean topology on the torus. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Spectral distance on the circle

Martinetti P.
2008-01-01

Abstract

A building block of non-commutative geometry is the observation that most of the geometric information of a compact Riemannian spin manifold M is encoded within its Dirac operator D. Especially via Connes' distance formula one is able to extract from the spectral properties of D the geodesic distance on M. In this paper we investigate the distance d encoded within a covariiant Dirac operator on a trivial U (n)-fiber bundle over the circle with arbitrary connection. It turns out that the connected components of d are tori whose dimension is given by the holonomy of the connection. For n = 2 we explicitly compute d on all the connected components. For n >= 2 we restrict to a given fiber and find that the distance is given by the trace of the module of a matrix. The latest is defined by the holonomy and the coordinate of the points under consideration. This paper extends to arbitrary n and arbitrary connection the results obtained in a previous work for U(2)-bundle with constant connection. It confirms interesting properties of the spectral distance with respect to another distance naturally associated to connection, namely the horizontal or Carnot-Caratheodory distance d(H). Especially in case the connection has irrational components, the connected components for d are the closure of the connected components of dH within the Euclidean topology on the torus. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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