Dirac Spectra, Summation Formulae, and the Spectral Action

Author: Teh, Kevin Kai-Wen

Year: 2013

Degree: Dissertation (Ph.D.)

Advisor: Marcolli, Matilde

Committee Members: Marcolli, Matilde; Markovic, Vladimir; Venselaar, Joannes Jitse; Makarov, Nikolai G.

Option: Mathematics

DOI: 10.7907/Z545-KK47

Abstract

Noncommutative geometry is a source of particle physics models with matter Lagrangians coupled to gravity. One may associate to any noncommutative space (A, H, D) its spectral action, which is defined in terms of the Dirac spectrum of its Dirac operator D. When viewing a spin manifold as a noncommutative space, D is the usual Dirac operator. In this paper, we give nonperturbative computations of the spectral action for quotients of SU(2), Bieberbach manifolds, and SU(3) equipped with a variety of geometries. Along the way we will compute several Dirac spectra and refer to applications of this computation.

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