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Topological T-duality, Automorphisms and Classifying Spaces

Mathematical Physics 2014-06-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Algebraic Topology math.MP

Abstract

We extend the formalism of Topological T-duality to spaces which are the total space of a principal S1S^1-bundle p:EWp:E \to W with an HH-flux in H3(E,Z)H^3(E,Z) together the together with an automorphism of the continuous-trace algebra on EE determined by HH. The automorphism is a `topological approximation' to a gerby gauge transformation of spacetime. We motivate this physically from Buscher's Rules for T-duality. Using the Equivariant Brauer Group, we connect this problem to the CC^{\ast}-algebraic formalism of Topological T-duality of Mathai and Rosenberg. We show that the study of this problem leads to the study of a purely topological problem, namely, Topological T-duality of triples (p,b,H)(p,b,H) consisting of isomorphism classes of a principal circle bundle p:XBp:X \to B and classes bH2(X,Z)b \in H^2(X,Z) and HH3(X,Z).H \in H^3(X,Z). We construct a classifying space R3,2R_{3,2} for triples in a manner similar to the work of Bunke and Schick \cite{Bunke}. We characterize R3,2R_{3,2} up to homotopy and study some of its properties. We show that it possesses a natural self-map which induces T-duality for triples. We study some properties of this map.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2890,
  title  = {Topological T-duality, Automorphisms and Classifying Spaces},
  author = {Ashwin S. Pande},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2890},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

38 pages, no figures, extensive revisions to Sec. (1) and (2)

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