Heat trace for Laplacian type operators with non-scalar symbols

For an elliptic selfadjoint operator $P =-[u^{\mu\nu}\partial_\mu \partial_\nu +v^\nu \partial_\nu +w]$ acting on a fiber bundle over a Riemannian manifold, where $u,v^\mu,w$ are $N\times N$-matrices, we develop a method to compute the heat-trace coefficients $a_r$ which allows to get them by a pure computational machinery. It is exemplified in dimension 4 by the value of $a_1$ written both in terms of $u,v^\mu,w$ or diffeomorphic and gauge invariants. We also answer to the question: when is it possible to get explicit formulae for $a_r$?Comment: 37 pages. v2: misprints corrected, references added, section 5.4 adde

Crossed product extensions of spectral triples

Given a spectral triple $(A,H,D)$ and a $C^*$-dynamical system $(\mathbf{A}, G, \alpha)$ where $A$ is dense in $\mathbf{A}$ and $G$ is a locally compact group, we extend the triple to a triplet $(\mathcal{B},\mathcal{H},\mathcal{D})$ on the crossed product $G \ltimes_{\alpha, \text{red}} \mathbf{A}$ which can be promoted to a modular-type twisted spectral triple within a general procedure exemplified by two cases: the $C^*$-algebra of the affine group and the conformal group acting on a complete Riemannian spin manifold.Comment: Version 3: version to appear in Journal of Noncommutative Geometr

Heat trace and spectral action on the standard Podles sphere

We give a new definition of dimension spectrum for non-regular spectral triples and compute the exact (i.e. non only the asymptotics) heat-trace of standard Podles spheres $S^2_q$ for $0<q<1$, study its behavior when $q\to 1$ and fully compute its exact spectral action for an explicit class of cut-off functions.Comment: 44 pages, 1 figur

Fuzzy Mass Relations in the Standard Model

Recently Connes has proposed a new geometric version of the standard model including a non-commutative charge conjugation. We present a systematic analysis of the relations among masses and coupling constants in this approach. In particular, for a given top mass, the Higgs mass is constrained to lie in an interval. Therefore this constraint is locally stable under renormalization flow.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX, one figure postscrip

Spectral triples and Toeplitz operators

We give examples of spectral triples, in the sense of A. Connes, constructed using the algebra of Toeplitz operators on smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domains in $C^n$, or the star product for the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization. Our main tool is the theory of generalized Toeplitz operators on the boundary of such domains, due to Boutet de Monvel and Guillemin.Comment: 31 page