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Delocalized Chern character for stringy orbifold K-theory

Algebraic Topology 2012-05-17 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we define a stringy product on Korb(\XX)\CK^*_{orb}(\XX) \otimes \C , the orbifold K-theory of any almost complex presentable orbifold \XX\XX. We establish that under this stringy product, the de-locaized Chern character ch_{deloc} : K^*_{orb}(\XX) \otimes \C \longrightarrow H^*_{CR}(\XX), after a canonical modification, is a ring isomorphism. Here HCR(\XX) H^*_{CR}(\XX) is the Chen-Ruan cohomology of \XX\XX. The proof relies on an intrinsic description of the obstruction bundles in the construction of Chen-Ruan product. As an application, we investigate this stringy product on the equivariant K-theory KG(G)K^*_G(G) of a finite group GG with the conjugation action. It turns out that the stringy product is different from the Pontryajin product (the latter is also called the fusion product in string theory).

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@article{arxiv.1110.0953,
  title  = {Delocalized Chern character for stringy orbifold K-theory},
  author = {Jianxun Hu and Bai-Ling Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.0953},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

34 pages. Final version to appear in Trans. of AMS. Improve the expositions and Change of the title thanks the referees

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