An application of T-duality to K-theory

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• Pedram Hekmati (IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro; University of Auckland)
• Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-11:00
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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OASW03 - Subfactors, K-theory and conformal field theory

Co-author: David Baraglia (The University of Adelaide)

T-duality is a discrete symmetry that was discovered by physicists in the context of string theory, but has now matured into a precise mathematical statement. In this talk I will give a brief overview of topological T-duality and explain how it can be used to give a new, surprisingly simple proof of Hodgkin’s famous theorem on the K-theory of compact simply connected Lie groups.

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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