On gravity, torsion and the spectral action principle

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 262, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1529-1565

  Pfäffle, Frank ^a,c   Stephan, Christoph A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chamseddine Connes spectral action; Commutative geometries; Orthogonal connections with torsion; Spectral triples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855229282     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2011.11.013     Document Type: Article

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