Superstrings, Geometry, Topology, and $C^*$-algebras
About this Volume
Edited by: Robert S. Doran, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, Greg Friedman, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX and Jonathan Rosenberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Publication Year
2010: Volume: 81
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4887-6 (print); 978-0-8218-9389-0 (online)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/pspum/081
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Articles
- Jonathan Rosenberg – Introduction
- Astrid an Huef, Iain Raeburn and Dana P. Williams – Functoriality of Rieffel’s generalised fixed-point algebras for proper actions
- Matthew Ando, Andrew J. Blumberg and David Gepner – Twists of $K$-theory and TMF
- John C. Baez and John Huerta – Division algebras and supersymmetry I
- Paul Baum – $K$-homology and D-branes
- Alan L. Carey and Bai-Ling Wang – Riemann-Roch and index formulae in twisted $K$-theory
- Keith C. Hannabuss and Varghese Mathai – Noncommutative principal torus bundles via parametrised strict deformation quantization
- Sooran Kang – A survey of noncommutative Yang-Mills theory for quantum Heisenberg manifolds
- John R. Klein, Claude L. Schochet and Samuel B. Smith – From rational homotopy to $K$-theory for continuous trace algebras
- Marc A. Rieffel – Distances between matrix algebras that converge to coadjoint orbits
- Hisham Sati – Geometric and topological structures related to M-branes
- Eric Sharpe – Landau-Ginzburg models, gerbes, and Kuznetsov’s homological projective duality

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