D-Branes, Tachyons and K-Homology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Mathematical Physics
K-Theory and Homology
math.MP
Abstract
We present an overview of the ways in which D-brane charges are classified in terms of K-theory, emphasizing the natural physical interpretations of a homological classification within a topological setting.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209210,
title = {D-Branes, Tachyons and K-Homology},
author = {Richard J. Szabo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209210},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages AMSTeX, 3 eps figures; Based on invited lecture given at the Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Physics ``K-Theory, Derived Categories and Strings'', University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, June 18-21 2002; V2: Clarifying comments and reference added