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Periodic twisted cohomology and hBduality
ISSN
0303-1179
Date Issued
2011
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Abstract
Using the differentiable structure, twisted 2-periodic de Rham cohomology is well known, and showing up as the target of Chern characters for twisted K-theory. The main motivation of this work is a topological interpretation of two-periodic twisted de Rham cohomology which is generalizable to arbitrary topological spaces and at the same time to arbitrary coefficients. To this end we develop a sheaf theory in the context of locally compact topological stacks with emphasis on: the construction of the sheaf theory operations in unbounded derived categories elements of Verdier duality and integration. The main result is the construction of a functorial periodization associated to a U(1)-gerbe. As an application we verify the T-duality isomorphism in periodic twisted cohomology and in periodic twisted orbispace cohomology.