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Abstract
We take a fresh look at the geometrization of logic using the recently developed tools of `quantum Riemannian geometry' applied in the digital case over the field $\Bbb F_2=\{0,1\}$, extending de Morgan duality to this context of differential forms and connections. The 1-forms correspond to graphs and the exterior derivative of a subset amounts to the arrows that cross between the set and its complement. The line graph $0-1-2$ has a non-flat but Ricci flat quantum Riemannian geometry. The previously known four quantum geometries on the triangle graph, of which one is curved, are revisited in terms of left-invariant differentials, as are the quantum geometries on the dual Hopf algebra, the group algebra of $\Bbb Z_3$. For the square, we find a moduli of four quantum Riemannian geometries, all flat, while for an $n$-gon with $n>4$ we find a unique one, again flat. We also propose an extension of de Morgan duality to general algebras and differentials over $\Bbb F_2$.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Noncommutative Geometry covers the noncommutative world in all its aspects. It is devoted to publication of research articles which represent major advances in the area of noncommutative geometry and its applications to other fields of mathematics and theoretical physics. Topics covered include in particular:
Hochschild and cyclic cohomology
K-theory and index theory
Measure theory and topology of noncommutative spaces, operator algebras
Spectral geometry of noncommutative spaces
Noncommutative algebraic geometry
Hopf algebras and quantum groups
Foliations, groupoids, stacks, gerbes
Deformations and quantization
Noncommutative spaces in number theory and arithmetic geometry
Noncommutative geometry in physics: QFT, renormalization, gauge theory, string theory, gravity, mirror symmetry, solid state physics, statistical mechanics.