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Lecture Notes in Physics Lecture Notes in Physics Editorial Board R. Beig, Wien, Austria W. Beiglböck, Heidelberg, Germany W. Domcke, Garching, Germany B.-G. Englert, Singapore U. Frisch, Nice, France P. Hänggi, Augsburg, Germany G. Hasinger, Garching, Germany K. Hepp, Zürich, Switzerland W. Hillebrandt, Garching, Germany D. Imboden, Zürich, Switzerland R. L. Jaffe, Cambridge, MA, USA R. Lipowsky, Potsdam, Germany H. v. Löhneysen, Karlsruhe, Germany I. Ojima, Kyoto, Japan D. Sornette, Nice, France, and Zürich, Switzerland S. Theisen, Potsdam, Germany W. Weise, Garching, Germany J. Wess, München, Germany J. Zittartz, Köln, Germany The Lecture Notes in Physics The series Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP), founded in 1969, reports new developments in physics research and teaching – quickly and informally, but with a high quality and the explicit aim to summarize and communicate current knowledge in an accessible way. Books published in this series are conceived as bridging material between advanced grad- uate textbooks and the forefront of research and to serve three purposes: • to be a compact and modern up-to-date source of reference on a well-defined topic • to serve as an accessible introduction to the field to postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from related areas • to be a source of advanced teaching material for specialized seminars, courses and schools Both monographs and multi-author volumes will be considered for publication. Edited volumes should, however, consist of a very limited number of contributions only. Pro- ceedings will not be considered for LNP. Volumes published in LNP are disseminated both in print and in electronic formats, the electronic archive being available at springerlink.com. The series content is indexed, ab- stracted and referenced by many abstracting and information services, bibliographic net- works, subscription agencies, library networks, and consortia. Proposals should be sent to a member of the Editorial Board, or directly to the managing editor at Springer: Christian Caron Springer Heidelberg Physics Editorial Department I Tiergartenstrasse 17 69121 Heidelberg / Germany [email protected] D. Husemöller M. Joachim B. Jurcoˇ M. Schottenloher Basic Bundle Theory and K-Cohomology Invariants With contributions by Siegfried Echterhoff, Stefan Fredenhagen and Bernhard Krötz Authors D. Husemöller B. Jurcoˇ MPI für Mathematik MPI für Mathematik Vivatsgasse 7 Vivatsgasse 7 53111 Bonn, Germany 53111 Bonn, Germany [email protected] [email protected] M. Joachim M. Schottenloher Universität Münster Universität München Mathematisches Institut Mathematisches Institut Einsteinstr. 62 Theresienstr. 39 48149 Münster, Germany 80333 München, Germany [email protected] Martin.Schottenloher@Mathematik. Uni-Muenchen.de Contributors Siegfried Echterhoff (Chap. 17, Appendix) Bernhard Krötz (Chap. 16, Appendix) Mathematisches Institut MPI für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany Stefan Fredenhagen (Physical Background to the K-Theory Classification of D-Branes), MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, Germany D. Husemöller et al., Basic Bundle Theory and K-Cohomology Invariants, Lect. Notes Phys. 726 (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2008), DOI 10.1007/ 978-3-540-74956-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007936164 ISSN 0075-8450 ISBN 978-3-540-74955-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: by the authors and Integra using a Springer LATEX macro package Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L., F. Steinen-Broo, Pau/Girona, Spain Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 12043415 5 4 3 2 1 0 Dedicated to the memory of Julius Wess d∗(α) pr∗(E) d∗d∗(E) 1 / d∗d∗(E) pr∗(E) 0 111 1 1 1 0 111 2 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 1 1 d∗d∗(E) d∗d∗(E) 2 1 11 0 F 0 11 11 11 d∗(α) 1 d∗(α) 2 11 0 11 1 d∗d∗(E) d∗d∗(E) 2 0 111 0 1 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 1 ∗( ) pr1 E Preface This lecture notes volume has its origins in a course by Husem¨oller on fibre bundles and twisted K-theory organized by Brano Jurˇco for physics students at the LMU in M¨unchen, summer term 2003. The fact that K-theory invariants, and in particular twisted K-theory invariants, were being used in the geometric aspects of mathemat- ical physics created the need for an accessible treatment of the subject. The course surveyed the book Fibre Bundles, 3rd. Ed. 1994, Springer-Verlag by Husem¨oller, and covered topics used in mathematical physics related to K-theory invariants. This book is referred to just by its title throughout the text. The idea of lecture notes came up by J. Wess in 2003 in order to serve several purposes. Firstly, they were to be a supplement to the book Fibre Bundles providing companion reading and alternative approaches to certain topics; secondly, they were to survey some of the basic results of background to K-theory, for example operator algebra K-theory, not covered in the Fibre Bundles; and finally the notes would contain information on the relation to physics. This we have done in the survey following this introduction “Physical background to the K-theory classification of D-branes: Introduction and references” tracing the papers how and where K-theory invariants started to play a role in string theory. The basic references to physics are given at the end of this survey, while the mathematics references are at the end of the volume. Other lectures of Husem¨oller had contributed to the text of the notes. During 2001/2002 in M¨unster resp. during Summer 2002 in M¨unchen, Husem¨oller gave Graduate College courses on the topics in the notes, organized by Joachim Cuntz resp. Martin Schottenloher, and in the Summer 2001, he had a regular course on C*-algebras and K-theory in M¨unchen. The general question of algebra bundles was studied with the support of Professor Cuntz in M¨unster during short periods from 2003 to 2005. Finally, Husem¨oller lectured on these topics during a workshop at IPM, Tehran, Iran, September 2005. It is with a great feeling of gratitude that these lecture opportunities are remembered here. The notes are organized into five parts. The first part on basic bundle theory emphasizes the concept of bundle as one treats the concepts of set, space, homotopy, group, or ring in basic mathematics. A bundle is just a map called the projection from the total space to its base space. As with commutative groups, topological vii viii Preface groups, transformation groups, and Lie groups, the concept of bundle is enhanced or enriched with additional axioms and structures leading toetale ´ bundles, principal bundles, fibre bundles, vector bundles, and algebra bundles. A topic discussed in the first part, which is not taken up in the Fibre Bundles, is the Serre–Swan theorem which relates vector bundles on a compact space X with finitely generated projective modules over the ring C(X) of continuous complex valued functions on the space X. This is one of the points where topological, algebraic, and operator K-theory come together. The second part of the notes takes up the homotopy classification of principal bundles and fibre bundles. Applications to the case of vector bundles are considered and the role of homotopy theory in K-theory is developed. This is related to the fact that K-theory is a representable functor on the homotopy category. The theory of characteristic classes in describing orientation and spin structures on vector bundles is carried out in detail, also leading to the notion of a string structure on a bundle and on a manifold. There are various versions of topological K-theory, and their relation to Bott peri- odicity is considered in the third part of the notes. An advanced version of operator K-theory, called KK-theory which integrates K-cohomology and K-homology, is introduced, and various features are sketched. The fourth part of the notes begins with algebra bundles with fibres that are either matrix algebras or algebras of bounded operators on a separable Hilbert space. The infinite dimensional algebra bundles are classified by only one characteristic class in the integral third cohomology group of the base space along the lines of the classification of complex line bundles with its first Chern class in the integral second cohomology group of the base space. The twisting of twisted K-theory is given by an infinite dimensional algebra bundle, and the twisted K-theory is defined in terms of cross sections of Fredholm bundles related to the algebra bundle describing the twist under consideration. A fundamental theme in bundle theory centers around the gluing of local bundle data related to bundles into a global object. In the fifth part we return to this theme and study gluing on open sets in a topological space of not just simple bundle data but also data in a more general category where the gluing data may satisfy transitiv- ity conditions only up to an isomorphism.
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