Topological T-duality, Automorphisms and Classifying Spaces
Abstract
We extend the formalism of Topological T-duality to spaces which are the total space of a principal -bundle with an -flux in together the together with an automorphism of the continuous-trace algebra on determined by . 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 -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 consisting of isomorphism classes of a principal circle bundle and classes and We construct a classifying space for triples in a manner similar to the work of Bunke and Schick \cite{Bunke}. We characterize 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.
Cite
@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)