The Galois action on symplectic K-theory

The K-theory of Abelian Symplectic Quotients

Let T be a compact torus and (M,ω) a Hamiltonian T -space. In a previous paper, the authors showed that the T -equivariant K-theory of the manifold M surjects onto the ordinary integral K-theory of the symplectic quotient M//T , under certain technical conditions on the moment map. In this paper, we use equivariant Morse theory to give a method for computing theK-theory of M//T by obtaining an ...

The K-theory of symplectic quotients

Let G be a compact connected Lie group, and (M,ω) a compact Hamiltonian Gspace with moment map μ. We give a surjectivity result which expresses the K-theory of the symplectic quotient M//G in terms of the equivariant K-theory of the original manifold M , under certain technical conditions on μ. This result is a natural K-theoretic analogue of the Kirwan surjectivity theorem in symplectic geomet...

Galois Module Structure of Milnor K - Theory

Let E be a cyclic extension of pth-power degree of a field F of characteristic p. For all m, s ∈ N, we determine KmE/p sKmE as a (Z/pZ)[Gal(E/F )]-module. We also provide examples of extensions for which all of the possible nonzero summands in the decomposition are indeed nonzero. Let F be a field of characteristic p. Let KmF denote the mth Milnor K-group of F and kmF = KmF/pKmF . (See, for ins...

On Quantum Galois Theory

The goals of the present paper are to initiate a program to systematically study and rigorously establish what a physicist might refer to as the “operator content of orbifold models.” To explain what this might mean, and to clarify the title of the paper, we will assume that the reader is familiar with the algebraic formulation of 2-dimensional CFT in the guise of vertex operator algebras (VOA)...

Notes on Galois Theory