Word-length spectral triples as compact quantum metric spaces
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A countable discrete group with a proper length function carries a natural spectral triple on its reduced group C*-algebra. A well-studied question in non-commutative metric geometry asks whether the associated Connes pseudo-metric always recovers the weak-* topology on the state space, making it a compact quantum metric space in Rieffel's sense. It holds for groups of polynomial growth and for word-hyperbolic groups, and it was widely expected that not every word-length function works - but no explicit counterexample was known. False: for every integer the canonical spectral triple of the Lamplighter group , with the word-length function of a finite symmetric generating set, fails to be a spectral metric space.
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Mario Klisse, using GPT-5.6 SolThat credit came with the record as it was imported. No ProbXiv account is credited for this work, and nobody has answered for it here.
The acknowledgements state: "The author acknowledges the use of GPT-5.6 Sol as an exploratory tool to assist in finding the counterexample. The AI was used under the author's strict mathematical guidance. All mathematical content and arguments were rigorously reviewed, verified, and substantially revised by the author, who assumes full responsibility for the final manuscript." The model helped find the central object, which is an essential named step, but the framing is explicitly human-led and the author reports substantially revising everything - the co-developed tier rather than the discovered one.
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