Generalised noncommutative geometry on finite groups and Hopf quivers

  • Shahn Majid

    Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Wen-Qing Tao

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Abstract

We explore the differential geometry of finite sets where the differential structure is given by a quiver rather than as more usual by a graph. In the finite group case we show that the data for such a differential calculus is described by certain Hopf quiver data as familiar in the context of path algebras. We explore a duality between geometry on the function algebra vs geometry on the group algebra, i.e. on the dual Hopf algebra, illustrated by the noncommutative Riemannian geometry of the group algebra of .We show how quiver geometries arise naturally in the context of quantum principal bundles.We provide a formulation of bimodule Riemannian geometry for quantum metrics on a quiver, with a fully worked example on 2 points; in the quiver case, metric data assigns matrices not real numbers to the edges of a graph. The paper builds on the general theory in our previous work [19].

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Shahn Majid, Wen-Qing Tao, Generalised noncommutative geometry on finite groups and Hopf quivers. J. Noncommut. Geom. 13 (2019), no. 3, pp. 1055–1116

DOI 10.4171/JNCG/345