D-Branes, RR-Fields and Duality on Noncommutative Manifolds
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2008
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Brodzki, J.
Varghese, M.
Rosenberg, J.
Szabo, R.
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Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2008; 277(3):643-706
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Jacek Brodzki, Varghese Mathai, Jonathan Rosenberg and Richard J. Szabo
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We develop some of the ingredients needed for string theory on noncommutative spacetimes, proposing an axiomatic formulation of T-duality as well as establishing a very general formula for D-brane charges. This formula is closely related to a noncommutative Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem that is proved here. Our approach relies on a very general form of Poincaré duality, which is studied here in detail. Among the technical tools employed are calculations with iterated products in bivariant -theory and cyclic theory, which are simplified using a novel diagram calculus reminiscent of Feynman diagrams.
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