Event time:
Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location:
214LOM
Speaker:
Jarah Evslin
Speaker affiliation:
SISSA, Trieste,Italy
Event description:
The fundamental objects of study are D-branes, which are characterized by a
cycle and vector bundle over the cycle. We discuss a kind of bordism that
defines equivalence classes of D-branes and we argue that equivalences classes
correspond to twisted K-theory classes of the total space. As applications,
one is led to a twisted generalization of the notion of representable cycles
and a generalization of mirror symmetry called T-duality, which is an
isomorphism of the twisted K-theory.