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Crystallographic T-duality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Mathematical Physics K-Theory and Homology math.MP

Abstract

We introduce the notion of crystallographic T-duality, inspired by the appearance of KK-theory with graded equivariant twists in the study of topological crystalline materials. Besides giving a range of new topological T-dualities, it also unifies many previously known dualities, motivates generalisations of the Baum-Connes conjecture to graded groups, provides a powerful tool for computing topological phase classification groups, and facilitates the understanding of crystallographic bulk-boundary correspondences in physics.

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@article{arxiv.1806.11385,
  title  = {Crystallographic T-duality},
  author = {Kiyonori Gomi and Guo Chuan Thiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.11385},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

49 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. Revised version with expanded appendix, for publication in J. Geom. Phys

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