Open AccessTwisted K-Theory of Lie Groups
Author(s) -
Volker Braun
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of high energy physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 261
eISSN - 1126-6708
pISSN - 1029-8479
DOI - 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/03/029
Subject(s) - lie group , simple lie group , lie theory , pure mathematics , computation , mathematics , simple (philosophy) , algebra over a field , group theory , adjoint representation of a lie algebra , lie conformal algebra , philosophy , algorithm , epistemology
I determine the twisted K-theory of all compact simply connected simple Liegroups. The computation reduces via the Freed-Hopkins-Teleman theorem to theCFT prescription, and thus explains why it gives the correct result. Finally Ianalyze the exceptions noted by Bouwknegt et al.Comment: 16 page
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