Ramond-Ramond fields, fractional branes and orbifold differential K-theory

DOI10.1007/s00220-009-0975-1zbMath1210.19006arXiv0710.2773OpenAlexW1972843636MaRDI QIDQ625475

Richard J. Szabo, Alessandro Valentino

Publication date: 17 February 2011

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2773

zbMATH Keywords

fractional braneslow-energy effective field theoryequivariant \(K\)-theory\(K\)-homologyType II string theoryBredon equivariant cohomologyDirac quantization rule for Ramond-Ramond fluxesglobal orbifoldsRamond-Ramond fieldsstringy orbifold cohomology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Ext and (K)-homology (19K33) Geometric applications of topological (K)-theory (19L64) Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50)

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