T-Duality: Topology Change from H-flux

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  • Peter Bouwknegt
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T-duality acts on circle bundles by exchanging the first Chern class with the fiberwise integral of the H-flux, as we motivate using E8 and also using S-duality. We present known and new examples including NS5-branes, nilmanifolds, Lens spaces, both circle bundles over RPn, and the AdS×S to AdS×CP×S with backgroundH-flux of Duff et al. When T-duality leads to M-theory on a non-spin manifold the gravitino partition function continues to exist due to the background flux, however the known quantization condition for G4 fails. In a more general context, we use correspondence spaces to implement isomorphisms on the twisted K-theories and twisted cohomology theories and to study the corresponding Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem. Interestingly, in the case of decomposable twists, both twisted theories admit fusion products and so are naturally rings. E-Mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 2003