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Gerbes over orbifolds and twisted K-theory
Geometry/Topology| Speaker: | Bernardo Uribe, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik Bonn |
| Location: | 593 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, May 7 2003, 12:10PM |
In this talk I will discuss my recent work (with Ernesto Lupercio) on which, following Segal, we associate to every gerbe with connection (B-field) a line bundle with connective structure over the loop orbifold, via a generalized holonomy map. I will show how this line bundle once localized to the inertia orbifold (twisted sectors) produces local coefficients (flat line bundles) for the orbifold cohomology (these coincide with the "inner local systems" in Ruan's theory.) I will also explain how these line bundles are the coefficients that Freed-Hopkins-Teleman use in their work of Twisted equivariant K-theory. When the orbifold is a manifold we recuperate the 2-dimensional TQFT constructed by Gawedzki.
This is a joint geometry-topology-pomology-analysis-math-physics seminar