Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM09-9, 6 Oct 2009

Quantization of Ramond-Ramond fields in differential orbifold K-theory

U Bunke, T Schick, R J Szabo and A Valentino


Abstract

We develop methods of differential equivariant K-theory to describe the Hamiltonian quantization of Ramond-Ramond fields on smooth representable orbifolds of Type~II superstring theory which can be expressed as global quotients by a finite group action, in the absence of H-flux and D-branes. We explicitly construct the relevant Heisenberg groups by developing a version of the Adams operation in differential orbifold K-theory, and proving a general index theorem for it. The Heisenberg groups in the sector of flat orbifold Ramond-Ramond fields are examined in detail.

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