• algebra and operator theory. More specifically, twisted K-theory with twist H is a particular variant of K-theory, in which the twist is given by an integral...
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  • operations. In high energy physics, K-theory and in particular twisted K-theory have appeared in Type II string theory where it has been conjectured that...
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  • this K-theory is isomorphic to Rosenberg's twisted K-theory, and provides an analysis-free construction. In addition they defined a notion of twisted Chern...
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  • In theoretical physics, twistor theory was proposed by Roger Penrose in 1967 as a possible path to quantum gravity and has evolved into a widely studied...
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  • D-branes are in general classified by a twisted K-theory, that had earlier been defined by Rosenberg (1989). The K-theory classification of D-branes has had...
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    Homotopy theory of presheaves of simplicial groupoids, Zhi-Ming Luo Twisted K-theory and K-theory of bundle gerbes Twisted Bundles and Twisted K-Theory - Karoubi...
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    The axial twist theory (a.k.a. axial twist hypothesis) is a scientific theory put forward to explain a range of unusual aspects of the body plan of vertebrates...
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  • possible twists H of a twisted K-theory are precisely the elements of the third integral cohomology. In the pure Yang–Mills SU(n) gauge theory, which is...
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    Ramond–Ramond field (category String theory)
    version of twisted K-theory. Such a rational version, in fact a characteristic class of twisted K-theory, is already known. It is the twisted Chern class...
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  • Bosonic string theory is the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s and named after Satyendra Nath Bose. It is so called because...
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  • In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called...
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  • Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence can be used to compute twisted K-theory groups as well. In short, twisted K-theory is the group completion of the isomorphism classes...
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  • M-theory is a theory in physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory...
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  • Bott periodicity theorem K-theory Topological K-theory Adams operation Algebraic K-theory Whitehead torsion Twisted K-theory Cobordism Thom space Suspension...
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  • physics, type II string theory is a unified term that includes both type IIA strings and type IIB strings theories. Type II string theory accounts for two of...
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    papers on smooth and twisted K-theory and its relationship to loop groups and also work about (extended) topological field theories, joint with Daniel Freed...
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  • In theoretical physics, the matrix theory is a quantum mechanical model proposed in 1997 by Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, Stephen Shenker, and Leonard Susskind;...
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  • The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers...
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    topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted. His best known...
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  • 'Superstring theory' is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory, it is the version of string theory that accounts...
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  • Conifold Orientifold Moduli space Hořava–Witten domain wall K-theory (physics) Twisted K-theory Holographic principle AdS/CFT correspondence Anomalies Instantons...
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  • The holographic principle is a property of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space...
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    In physics, Kaluza–Klein theory (KK theory) is a classical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the idea of a fifth dimension...
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  • theory is a theory in which the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with...
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  • Twistor string theory is an equivalence between N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and the perturbative topological B model string theory in twistor...
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  • Brane (redirect from Brane theory)
    in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In string theory and related theories (such as supergravity theories), a brane is a physical object that generalizes...
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  • In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape"...
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    speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Twisted K-theory and loop groups). He is one of the founders of the IAS/Park City Mathematics...
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  • are nevertheless equivalent when employed as extra dimensions of string theory. Early cases of mirror symmetry were discovered by physicists. Mathematicians...
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  • superstring theory. Specifically, the Virasoro algebras with N {\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}} supersymmetries are K ( 1 , N ) {\displaystyle K(1,{\mathcal...
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