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SpectralTriples

A Lean 4 + Mathlib formalization of spectral triples from Alain Connes' noncommutative geometry: odd and even (Z₂-graded) spectral triples, the resolvent of the Dirac operator, and finitely-summable triples — working toward the Fredholm index pairing.

📐 Blueprint · 🗺️ Design notes · 📋 Implementation plan & status

Current status

All source is sorry-free and axiom-free. Built against Mathlib v4.30.0.

File Contents
SpectralTriples/Basic.lean IsOddSpectralTriple, IsEvenSpectralTriple (Dirac operator D as an unbounded LinearPMap) and their basic API
SpectralTriples/Resolvent.lean LinearPMap.resolventSet / resolvent (adapted from Mathlib PR #29624, Moritz Doll)
SpectralTriples/FinitelySummable.lean self-adjoint resolvent estimates and IsFinitelySummableSpectralTriple (compact resolvent)
SpectralTriples/Index.lean the graded-kernel index of an even triple, with finiteDimensional_Dkernel (compact resolvent ⇒ ker D finite-dim, so D⁺ is Fredholm)
SpectralTriples/DiagonalOperator.lean block-diagonal operators on ℓ² and the compactness criterion isCompactOperator_diagL (block norms → 0 ⇒ compact)
SpectralTriples/Examples/Torus.lean the 2-torus Dirac triple: self-adjoint D, compact resolvent at i, grading γ = σ₃, the shift representation of ℂ[ℤ²], assembled as an even, finitely-summable spectral triple

The encoding decision: the unbounded LinearPMap picture is the spine, with a bounded Fredholm-module layer planned at Phase 2 for the index pairing. See PLAN.md for the rationale, the immediate next step, and the phase outline; DESIGN.md for the full mathematical vision and worked examples.

Building

lake exe cache get   # fetch prebuilt Mathlib
lake build

References

Connes, Noncommutative Geometry (1994); Gracia-Bondía–Várilly–Figueroa, Elements of Noncommutative Geometry (2001); Higson–Roe, Analytic K-Homology (2000). Reference notes live in SpectralTriples/refs/.

Assurance

This project follows a lightweight assurance convention — verification / validation / faithfulness, axiom vetting, and a standardized formalization.yaml project card. Local settings:

Setting Where
Project card formalization.yaml
Faithfulness map (informal ↔ formal) audit/FAITHFULNESS.md
Kernel axiom certificate (generated, CI-diffed) audit/axiom-report.txt
Axiom audit AXIOM_AUDIT.md0 project axioms
Vetting strictness audit/vetting/policy.ymlL1

All tracked headlines are sorry-free and axiom-clean (standard-three only: propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound); CI regenerates audit/axiom-report.txt from #print axioms and fails on drift. Regenerate locally with:

lake env lean scripts/axiom_report.lean > audit/axiom-report.txt

Authors & license

Jon Bannon, Michael R. Douglas. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.

About

A project to flesh out the theory of spectral triples in noncommutative geometry. Appropriate bits of this can be upstreamed to Mathlib for community use. The initial impetus for this was to provide a Mathlib-appropriate global framework for index theorems.

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