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Riemannian geometry of compact metric spaces

A construction is given for which the Hausdorff measure and dimension of an arbitrary abstract compact metric space (X, d) can be encoded in a spectral triple. By introducing the concept of resolving sequence of open covers, conditions are given under which the topology, metric, and Hausdorff measure can be recovered from a spectral triple dependent on such a sequence. The construction holds for arbitrary compact metric spaces, generalizing previous results for fractals, as well as the original setting of manifolds, and also holds when Hausdorff and box dimensions differ---in particular, it does not depend on any self-similarity or regularity conditions on the space. The only restriction on the space is that it have positive s₀ dimensional Hausdorff measure, where s₀ is the Hausdorff dimension of the
space, assumed to be finite. Also, X does not need to be embedded in another space, such as Rⁿ.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/34744
Date21 May 2010
CreatorsPalmer, Ian Christian
PublisherGeorgia Institute of Technology
Source SetsGeorgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDissertation

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