Ramond-Ramond fields and twisted differential K-theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2022.V26.N5.A2arXiv1903.08843MaRDI QIDQ6315980FDOQ6315980

Authors: Daniel Joseph Grady, Hisham Sati 

Publication date: 21 March 2019

Abstract: We provide a systematic approach to describing the Ramond-Ramond (RR) fields as elements in twisted differential K-theory. This builds on a series of constructions by the authors on geometric and computational aspects of twisted differential K-theory, which to a large extent were originally motivated by this problem. In addition to providing a new conceptual framework and a mathematically solid setting, this allows us to uncover interesting and novel effects. Explicitly, we use our recently constructed Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence (AHSS) for twisted differential K-theory to characterize the RR fields and their quantization, which involves interesting interplay between geometric and topological data. We illustrate this with the examples of spheres, tori, and Calabi-Yau threefolds.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Calabi-Yau manifolds (algebro-geometric aspects) (14J32) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Differential algebra (12H05) Spectral sequences, hypercohomology (18G40) (K)-theory of quadratic and Hermitian forms (11E70)

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