Heat Trace Asymptotics on Noncommutative Spaces

This is a mini-review of the heat kernel expansion for generalized Laplacians on various noncommutative spaces. Applications to the spectral action principle, renormalization of noncommutative theories and anomalies are also considered.Comment: This is a contribution to the Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Geometry Conference in honor of Thomas P. Branson, published in SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications) at http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA

Continuous and Random Vapnik-Chervonenkis Classes

We show that if $T$ is a dependent theory then so is its Keisler randomisation $T^R$. In order to do this we generalise the notion of a Vapnik-Chervonenkis class to families of $[0,1]$-valued functions (a \emph{continuous} Vapnik-Chervonenkis class), and we characterise families of functions having this property via the growth rate of the mean width of an associated family of convex compacts

String Theory and the Fuzzy Torus

We outline a brief description of non commutative geometry and present some applications in string theory. We use the fuzzy torus as our guiding example.Comment: Invited review for IJMPA rev1: an imprecision corrected and a reference adde

Weakly fuzzy topological entropy

summary:In 2005, İ. Tok fuzzified the notion of the topological entropy R. A. Adler et al. (1965) using the notion of fuzzy compactness of C. L. Chang (1968). In the present paper, we have proposed a new definition of the fuzzy topological entropy of fuzzy continuous mapping, namely weakly fuzzy topological entropy based on the notion of weak fuzzy compactness due to R. Lowen (1976) along with its several properties. We have shown that the topological entropy R. A. Adler et al. (1965) of continuous mapping $\psi \colon (X,\tau )\rightarrow (X,\tau )$, where $(X,\tau )$ is compact, is equal to the weakly fuzzy topological entropy of $\psi \colon (X,\omega (\tau ))\rightarrow (X,\omega (\tau ))$. We have also established an example that shows that the fuzzy topological entropy of İ. Tok (2005) cannot give such a bridge result to the topological entropy of Adler et al. (1965). Moreover, our definition of the weakly fuzzy topological entropy can be applied to find the topological entropy (namely weakly fuzzy topological entropy $h_w(\psi )$) of the mapping $\psi \colon X\rightarrow X$ (where $X$ is either compact or weakly fuzzy compact), whereas the topological entropy $h_a(\psi )$ of Adler does not exist for the mapping $\psi \colon X\rightarrow X$ (where $X$ is non-compact weakly fuzzy compact). Finally, a product theorem for the weakly fuzzy topological entropy has been established

Characterizations of minimal T3 1/2 L-topological spaces

AbstractFor L a closed sets lattice, we prove the existence and a characterization theorem of the minimal elements of T3 1/2 LX, where T3 1/2 LX is the set of all closed sets L-topologies on X ordered by inclusion