Topological T-duality: KK-monopoles, gerbes and automorphisms
by Pande, Ashwin S., Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, 2007, 80 pages; 3260407

Abstract:

We show that Topological T-duality proposed by Mathai and Rosenberg may be used to define a T-dual for a semi-free S1-space. In particular, we argue that it gives the physical T-dual for a system of n Kaluza-Klein (KK) monopoles.

We show that the 'dyonic coordinates' well known in the physics literature may be incorporated within this formalism of Topological T-duality.

We study some formal properties of topological T-duality: We note that Topological T-duality naturally defines a T-dual of any semi-free S1-space X. If B X/S1, X is naturally associated to a Hitchin 2-gerbe on B+. We also note that T-duals of such spaces may be naturally associated to Hitchin 3-gerbes on B+ × S1. We demonstrate that Topological T-duality gives a natural mapping between these two gerbes.

We use the Equivariant Brauer Group to model a space with a B-field or a H-flux. We note that each step of the natural filtration on this group corresponds to one of the gauge fields of the H-flux. We note that given a T-dual pair of principal S1-bundles E, E# over B, T-duality gives a natural map T : H 2(E, [special characters omitted]) → H2(E#,[special characters omitted]). We define a classifying space for pairs over B consisting of a principal S-1bundle p : XB and a class bH2(X,[special characters omitted]). We characterize this space up to homotopy. We make a conjecture on the T-dual of an automorphism with nonzero H-flux.

 
AdviserJ. Rosenberg
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
SourceDAI/B 68-04, p. , Aug 2007
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsMathematics
Publication Number3260407
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