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D-branes, B-fields and twisted K-theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v3 Differential Geometry K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

In this note we propose that D-brane charges, in the presence of a topologically non-trivial B-field, are classified by the K-theory of an infinite dimensional C^*-algebra. In the case of B-fields whose curvature is pure torsion our description is shown to coincide with that of Witten.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0002023,
  title  = {D-branes, B-fields and twisted K-theory},
  author = {P. Bouwknegt and V. Mathai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0002023},
  year   = {2014}
}

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