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The Ricci Flow on Noncommutative Two-Tori

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Abstract

In this paper we construct a version of Ricci flow for noncommutative two-tori, based on a spectral formulation in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenfunction of the Laplacian and recent results on the Gauss–Bonnet theorem for noncommutative tori.

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© 2012 Springer. Received: 25 August 2011. Revised: 9 January 2012. Accepted: 19 February 2012. Published online: 14 March 2012. This paper is based on the results of the first author's summer research project within the Caltech program Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) [7]. The first author acknowledges support given from the bequest of Herbert J. Ryser (1923–1985) through the Caltech mathematics department. The second author acknowledges support from NSF Grants DMS-0901221, DMS-1007207.

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Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Caltech Mathematics Department
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DMS-0901221
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DMS-1007207

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2012-08-20
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