Trace Extensions,Determinant Bundles,and Gauge Group Cocycles

We study the geometry of determinant line bundles associated with Dirac operators on compact odd-dimensional manifolds. Physically, these arise as (local) vacuum line bundles in quantum gauge theory. We give a simplified derivation of the commutator anomaly formula using a construction based on noncyclic trace extensions and associated nonmultiplicative renormalized determinants.     

Eigenvalue-Dynamics off the Calogero–Moser System

By finding N(N– 1)/2 suitable conserved quantities, free motions of real symmetric N×N matrices X(t), with arbitrary initial conditions, are reduced to nonlinear equations involving only the eigenvalues of X – in contrast to the rational Calogero-Moser system, for which [X(0),Xd(0)] has to be purely imaginary, of rank one.     

Goldfish Geodesics and Hamiltonian Reduction of Matrix Dynamics

We describe the Hamiltonian reduction of a time-dependent real-symmetric N×N matrix system to free vector dynamics, and also provide a geodesic interpretation of Ruijsenaars–Schneider systems. The simplest of the latter, the goldfish equation, is found to represent a flat-space geodesic in curvilinear coordinates.      

Noncommutative Riemann Surfaces by Embeddings in $${\mathbb{R}^{3}}$$

We introduce C-Algebras of compact Riemann surfaces as non-commutative analogues of the Poisson algebra of smooth functions on . Representations of these algebras give rise to sequences of matrix-algebras for which matrix-commutators converge to Poisson-brackets as N → ∞. For a particular class of surfaces, interpolating between spheres and tori, we completely characterize (even for the intermediate singular surface) all finite dimensional representations of the corresponding C-algebras.     

A noncommutative catenoid

A noncommutative algebra corresponding to the classical catenoid is introduced together with a differential calculus of derivations. We prove that there exists a unique metric and torsion-free connection that is compatible with the complex structure, and the curvature is explicitly calculated. A noncommutative analogue of the fact that the catenoid is a minimal surface is studied by constructing a Laplace operator from the connection and showing that the embedding coordinates are harmonic. Furthermore, an integral is defined and the total curvature is computed. Finally, classes of left and right modules are introduced together with constant curvature connections, and bimodule compatibility conditions are discussed in detail.     

Noncommutative Minimal Surfaces

We define noncommutative minimal surfaces in the Weyl algebra, and give a method to construct them by generalizing the well-known Weierstrass representation.     

Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry in Terms of Multi-Linear Brackets

We show that the pseudo-Riemannian geometry of submanifolds can be formulated in terms of higher order multi-linear maps. In particular, we obtain a Poisson bracket formulation of almost (para-)Kähler geometry.