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Periodic twisted cohomology and T-duality

Algebraic Topology 2012-10-12 v2 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

The initial motivation of this work was to give a topological interpretation of two-periodic twisted de-Rham cohomology which is generalizable to arbitrary coefficients. To this end we develop a sheaf theory in the context of locally compact topological stacks with emphasis on the construction of the sheaf theory operations in unbounded derived categories, elements of Verdier duality and integration. The main result is the construction of a functorial periodization functor associated to a U(1)-gerbe. As applications we verify the TT-duality isomorphism in periodic twisted cohomology and in periodic twisted orbispace cohomology.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1459,
  title  = {Periodic twisted cohomology and T-duality},
  author = {Ulrich Bunke and Markus Spitzweck and Thomas Schick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1459},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

128 pages; v2: small corrections (e.g. of typos), version to appear in Asterisque

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