Topological T-duality, automorphisms and classifying spaces

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2014.04.004MaRDI QIDQ2451736zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ashwin S. Pande

Publication date 4 June 2014

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2890

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^\ast\)-algebrasalgebraic topologynoncommutative geometrytopological T-duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Noncommutative global analysis, noncommutative residues (58J42) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75)

Abstract: We extend the formalism of Topological T-duality to spaces which are the total space of a principal $S^1$-bundle $p:EoW$ with an $H$-flux in $H^3(E,Z)$ together the together with an automorphism of the continuous-trace algebra on $E$ determined by $H$. 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 $C^{ast}$-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 $(p,b,H)$ consisting of isomorphism classes of a principal circle bundle $p:XoB$ and classes $bin{H}^2(X,Z)$ and $Hin{H}^3(X,Z).$ We construct a classifying space $R_{3,2}$ for triples in a manner similar to the work of Bunke and Schick cite{Bunke}. We characterize $R_{3,2}$ 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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