Abstract

We study details of geometry of noncommutative de Sitter space: we determine the Riemann and Ricci curvature tensors, the energy and the Laplacian. We find, in particular, that fuzzy de Sitter space is an Einstein space, Rab=−3ζ ηabR_{ab}=-3ζ\,η_{ab}. The Laplacian, defined in the noncommutative frame formalism, is not hermitian and gives nonunitary evolution. When symmetrically ordered, it has the usual quadratic form Δ=ΠaΠaΔ=Π_aΠ^a (when acting on functions in representation space, Ψ∈HΨ\in {\cal H}): we find its eigenstates and discuss its spectrum. This result is a first step in a study of the scalar field Laplacian, Δ=[Πa,[Πa, ]]Δ= [Π_a, [Π^a,\ ]], and its propagator.

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