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K-Theorie und Stringtheorie

Termin:     Dienstag, 11 h c.t., HS E04
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Emanuel Scheidegger, Raum 434, Tel.: (089) 2394 4589
Uwe Semmelmann, Raum 307, Tel.: (089) 2394-4625


1. Vortrag
02.05.
M. Hoster
K-theory I
K-groups, definition and elementary properties
([At], [Bo] )
2. Vortrag
09.05
M. Hoster
K-theory II
Bott periodicity, Atiyah-Bott-Shapiro-construction
([At], [ABS] ) ( Vortragsscript)
3.Vortrag
16.05
E. Scheidegger
Fields and Geometry in String Theory
Fields and geometry in string theory, a kind of a dictionary for physicists and mathematicians
4.Vortrag
23.05.
I. Sachs
D-Branes and Sen's Construction
Introduction to D-branes and Sen's construction of low dimensional D-branes
5.Vortrag
30.05.
U. Semmelmann
Spin-c-structures I
definition, examples, article of Bryant
6.Vortrag
06.06.
U. Semmelmann
Spin-c-structures II
definition, examples, article of Bryant
7.Vortrag
13.06.
N. Quiroz
D-Branes and K-theory
Section 4 of Witten's article

20.06.

Kein Vortrag

8.Vortrag
27.06.
C. Scrucca
Anomalies in String Theory and their Cancellation
Introduction to anomalies in string theory, their cancellation by means of string theory
and their relation to secondary characteristic classes

04.07

Kein Vortrag

10. Vortrag
11.07.
Prof. D. Kotschick
Introduction to Gerbes

11. Vortrag
18.07.
Prof. D. Husemöller
The Steenrod algebra
13. Vortrag
25.07.
E. Scheidegger
K-theory and string theory



Literatur:

[Wi1] E. Witten: D-Branes and K-Theory
Preprint: hep-th/9810188 (1998)

Weitere Literatur:

[MW] G. Moore, E. Witten: Self-Duality, Ramond-Ramond Fields and K-Theory
Preprint: hep-th/9912279 (1999)
[FW] D.S. Freed, E. Witten: Anomalies in String Theory with D-Branes
Preprint: hep-th/9907189 (1999)
[FH] D.S. Freed, M. Hopkins: On Ramond-Ramond Fields and K-Theory
Preprint: hep-th/0002027 (2000)
[Hi] N. Hitchin: Lectures on Special Lagrangian Submanifolds
Preprint: math.dg/9907034
[B1] R.L. Bryant, E. Sharpe: D-Branes and Spin-c Structures
Preprint: hep-th/9812084 (1998)










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