Finite Pseudo-Riemannian Spectral Triples and The Standard Model

Abstract

Starting from the formulation of pseudo-Riemannian generalisation of real spectral triples we develop the data of geometries over finite-dimensional algebras with indefinite metric and their Riemannian parts. We then discuss the Standard Model spectral triple in this formalism and interpret the physical symmetry preserving the lepton number as a shadow of a finite pseudo-Riemannian structure.

15 pages, PACS 02.40.Gh, 12.60.-i, 11.30.Er