Noncommutative tori and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between noncommutative tori and elliptic curves through differential modules, establishing a Riemann-Hilbert correspondence that reveals the fundamental group structure of noncommutative tori.

Contribution

It introduces a Tannakian category framework linking noncommutative tori and elliptic curves, identifying the associated affine group scheme as the algebraic hull of .

Findings

The category is Tannakian and equivalent to representations of .

The fundamental group of the noncommutative torus is .

A subcategory corresponds to representations of .

Abstract

We study the interplay between noncommutative tori and noncommutative elliptic curves through a category of equivariant differential modules on $\mathbb{C}^*$. We functorially relate this category to the category of holomorphic vector bundles on noncommutative tori as introduced by Polishchuk and Schwarz and study the induced map between the corresponding K-theories. In addition, there is a forgetful functor to the category of noncommutative elliptic curves of Soibelman and Vologodsky, as well as a forgetful functor to the category of vector bundles on $\mathbb{C}^*$ with regular singular connections. The category that we consider has the nice property of being a Tannakian category, hence it is equivalent to the category of representations of an affine group scheme. Via an equivariant version of the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence we determine this group scheme to be (the algebraic hull of) $\mathbb{Z}^2$. We also obtain a full subcategory of the category of holomorphic bundles of the noncommutative torus, which is equivalent to the category of representations of $\mathbb{Z}$. This group is the proposed topological fundamental group of the noncommutative torus (understood as a degenerate elliptic curve) and we study Nori's notion of \'etale fundamental group in this context.