Topics in Noncommutative Geometry
arXiv:1510.07271
Abstract
The leitmotiv of this review is noncommutative principal U(1)-bundles and associated line bundles. In the first part I give a brief introduction to Hopf-Galois theory and its applications, from field extensions to principal group actions. I then recall Woronowicz' definition of compact quantum group and the notion of noncommutative principal bundle. When the structure group is U(1), there is a construction due to Pimsner that allows to get the total space of a "bundle" (more precisely, a strongly graded C*-algebra) from the base space and a noncommutative "line bundle" (a self-Morita equivalence bimodule). As an example of this construction, I will discuss the U(1)-principal bundles of quantum lens spaces over quantum weighted projective space. The second part is a peek into the realm of nonassociative geometry: after a review of some properties of Hopf cochains and cocycles, I will discuss the theory of cochain quantization and its applications, from Albuquerque-Majid example of octonions, to "line bundles" on the noncommutative torus.
28 pages. Lecture notes for the autumn school "From Poisson Geometry to Quantum Fields on Noncommutative Spaces", University of Wurzburg, 5-10 October 2015
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