TY - JOUR T1 - Curved noncommutative torus and Gauss--Bonnet JF - Journal of Mathematical Physics. Volume 54, Issue 1, 22 January 2013, Article number 013518 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski A1 - Andrzej Sitarz KW - Geometry AB - We study perturbations of the flat geometry of the noncommutative two-dimensional torus T^2_\theta (with irrational \theta). They are described by spectral triples (A_\theta, \H, D), with the Dirac operator D, which is a differential operator with coefficients in the commutant of the (smooth) algebra A_\theta of T_\theta. We show, up to the second order in perturbation, that the zeta-function at 0 vanishes and so the Gauss-Bonnet theorem holds. We also calculate first two terms of the perturbative expansion of the corresponding local scalar curvature. PB - American Institute of Physics UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7376 N1 - The article is composed of 13 pages and is recorded in PDF format U1 - 7424 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 U5 - MAT/07 FISICA MATEMATICA ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Canonical k-Minkowski Spacetime Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gherardo Piacitelli A1 - Ludwik Dabrowski AB - A complete classification of the regular representations of the relations [T,X_j] = (i/k)X_j, j=1,...,d, is given. The quantisation of RxR^d canonically (in the sense of Weyl) associated with the universal representation of the above relations is intrinsically \\\"radial\\\", this meaning that it only involves the time variable and the distance from the origin; angle variables remain classical. The time axis through the origin is a spectral singularity of the model: in the large scale limit it is topologically disjoint from the rest. The symbolic calculus is developed; in particular there is a trace functional on symbols. For suitable choices of states localised very close to the origin, the uncertainties of all spacetime coordinates can be made simultaneously small at wish. On the contrary, uncertainty relations become important at \\\"large\\\" distances: Planck scale effects should be visible at LHC energies, if processes are spread in a region of size 1mm (order of peak nominal beam size) around the origin of spacetime. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3863 U1 - 846 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER -