Foundations of Noncommutative Carrollian Geometry via Lie-Rinehart Pairs

Abstract

Carrollian manifolds offer an intrinsic geometric framework for the physics in the ultra-relativistic limit. The recently introduced Carrollian Lie algebroids are generalised to the setting of $ρ$-commutative geometry, (also known as almost commutative geometry), where the underlying algebras commute up to a numerical factor. Via $ρ$-Lie-Rinehart pairs, it is shown that the foundational tenets of Carrollian geometry have analogous statements in the almost commutative world. We explicitly build two toy examples: we equip the extended quantum plane and the noncommutative $2$-torus with Carrollian structures. This opens up the rigorous study of noncommutative Carrollian geometry via almost commutative geometry.