Geometric construction of classes in van Daele’s K-theory

DOI10.1063/5.0136854MaRDI QIDQ6097834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Joseph, Ralf Meyer

Publication date 7 June 2023

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16245

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic (K)-theory and (L)-theory (category-theoretic aspects) (18F25) Algebraic (K)-theory of spaces (19D10) Geometric applications of topological (K)-theory (19L64) Miscellaneous applications of (K)-theory (19M05) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

Abstract: We describe explicit generators for the "real" K-theory of "real" spheres in van Daele's picture. Pulling these generators back along suitable maps from tori to spheres produces a family of Hamiltonians used in the physics literature on topological insulators. We compute their K-theory classes geometrically, based on wrong-way functoriality of K-theory and the geometric version of bivariant K-theory, which we extend to the "real" case.

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