Topological structures in string theory

DOI10.1098/rsta.2001.0841zbMath1041.81094WikidataQ56270327 ScholiaQ56270327MaRDI QIDQ4535274

Graeme B. Segal

Publication date: 13 June 2002

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2001.0841

zbMATH Keywords

survey; noncommutative geometry; \(D\)-branes; \(K\)-theory; string theory; gerbes; topological quantum field theory; string connection; string backgrounds; B-fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T30: String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory

81T75: Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

57R56: Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology)

55N15: Topological (K)-theory

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