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K-Theory from a physical perspective

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arxiv hep-th/0304018 v1 pith:R3DWNWMB submitted 2003-04-02 hep-th

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This is an expository paper which aims at explaining a physical point of view on the K-theoretic classification of D-branes. We combine ideas of renormalization group flows between boundary conformal field theories, together with spacetime notions such as anomaly cancellation and D-brane instanton effects. We illustrate this point of view by describing the twisted K-theory of the special unitary groups SU(N).

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