Published for the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences by the American Mathematical Society
c2009
viii, 110 p. ill. 26 cm
CBMS regional conference series in mathematics
Algebraic topology
C*-algebras
Duality theory )Mathematics(
QA
612
.
R58
2009
Rosenberg, J1951-)Jonathan(
"NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Topology, C*-Algebras, and String Duality held at Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas, May 18-22, 2009"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction and motivation -- K-theory and its relevance to physics -- A few basics of C*-algebras and crossed products -- Continuous-trace algebras and twisted K-theory -- More on crossed products and their K-theory -- The topology of T-duality and the Bunke-Schick construction -- T-duality via crossed products -- Higher-dimensional T-duality via topological methods -- Higher-dimensional T-duality via C*-algebraic methods -- Advanced topics and open problems