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Duality for topological abelian group stacks and ehBduality
Journal
$K$-theory and noncommutative geometry
Date Issued
2008
Editor(s)
CortiƱas, Guillermo
Cuntz, Joachim
Karoubi, Max
Nest, Ryszard
Weibel, Charles A.
DOI
10.4171/060-1/10
Abstract
We extend Pontrjagin duality from topological abelian groups to certain locally compact group stacks. To this end we develop a sheaf theory on the big site of topological spaces S in order to prove that the sheaves ExtiShAbS(G,T), i = 1, 2, vanish, where G is the sheaf represented by a locally compact abelian group and T is the circle. As an application of the theory we interpret topological T-duality of principal Tn-bundles in terms of Pontrjagin duality of abelian group stacks.