Topology, C*-algebras, and string duality
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| Natura: | Livre papier |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Providence, Rhode Island :
Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society
copyright 2009.
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| Serie: | CBMS Regional conference series in mathematics
111 |
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Texte issu de la conférence donnée au NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Topology, C*-Algebras, and String Duality held at Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas, May 18-22, 2009 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Topology, C*-algebras, and string duality, Jonathan Rosenberg, Providence, Rhode Island, Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society, 2012, CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, 978-1-4704-1569-3 |
Sommario:
- Introduction and motivation
- K-theory and its relevance to physics
- A few basics of C*-algebras and crossed products
- Continuous-trace algebras and twisted K-theory
- More on crossed products and their K-theory
- The topology of T-duality and the Bunke-Schick construction
- T-duality via crossed products
- Higher-dimensional T-duality via topological methods
- Higher-dimensional T-duality via C*-algebraic methods
- Advanced topics and open problems