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Spherical T-Duality and the spherical Fourier-Mukai transform

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-07 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In earlier papers, we introduced spherical T-duality, which relates pairs of the form (P,H)(P,H) consisting of an oriented S3S^3-bundle PMP\rightarrow M and a 7-cocycle HH on PP called the 7-flux. Intuitively, the spherical T-dual is another such pair (P^,H^)(\hat P, \hat H) and spherical T-duality exchanges the 7-flux with the Euler class, upon fixing the Pontryagin class and the second Stiefel-Whitney class. Unless dim(M)4\mathrm{dim}(M)\leq 4, not all pairs admit spherical T-duals and the spherical T-duals are not always unique. In this paper, we define a canonical Poincar\'e virtual line bundle P\mathcal{P} on S3×S3S^3 \times S^3 (actually also for Sn×SnS^n\times S^n) and the spherical Fourier-Mukai transform, which implements a degree shifting isomorphism in K-theory on the trivial S3S^3-bundle. This is then used to prove that all spherical T-dualities induce natural degree-shifting isomorphisms between the 7-twisted K-theories of the pairs (P,H)(P,H) and (P^,H^)(\hat P, \hat H) when dim(M)4\mathrm{dim}(M)\leq 4, improving our earlier results.

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@article{arxiv.1502.04444,
  title  = {Spherical T-Duality and the spherical Fourier-Mukai transform},
  author = {Peter Bouwknegt and Jarah Evslin and Varghese Mathai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04444},
  year   = {2018}
}

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