Global Eikonal Condition for Lorentzian Distance Function in Noncommutative Geometry

Connes' noncommutative Riemannian distance formula is constructed in two steps, the first one being the construction of a path-independent geometrical functional using a global constraint on continuous functions. This paper generalizes this first step to Lorentzian geometry. We show that, in a...

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Main Author: Nicolas Franco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2010-08-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2010.064