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Derived Azumaya algebras and twisted $K$-theory

Algebraic Topology 2019-04-26 v2 Algebraic Geometry K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We construct a relative version of topological KK-theory of dg categories over an arbitrary quasi-compact, quasi-separated C\mathbb{C}-scheme XX. This has as input a Perf(X)\text{Perf}(X)-linear stable \infty-category and output a sheaf of spectra on X(C)X(\mathbb{C}), the space of complex points of XX. We then characterize the values of this functor on inputs of the form ModAωMod_{A}^{\omega}, for AA a derived Azumaya algebra over XX. In such cases we show that this coincides with the α\alpha-twisted topological KK-theory of X(C)X(\mathbb{C}) for some appropriately defined twist of KK-theory. We use this to provide a topological analogue of a classical result of Quillen's on the algebraic KK-theory of Severi-Brauer varieties.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05810,
  title  = {Derived Azumaya algebras and twisted $K$-theory},
  author = {Tasos Moulinos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05810},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in Advances in Mathematics