Friday, 15 November 2019

Notes on Topological K-Theory

Hello All! These are some notes on Topological K-Theory that I wrote by combining stuff from various sources on the internet and some books. Sorry I won't be explaining anything here - but I hope this is useful! :) 
Stuff I used: Some stuff from John Baez and Complex topological K-theory by Efton Park. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but its useful for classifying topological insulators and superconductors. There's a paper by Kitaev on this - and my motivation for studying K-theory was to understand this paper. I hope these notes are useful for you if you wanna get a basic idea of K-theory (whether from the Physics or the Math perspective) I apologise to Theoretical Computer Scientists, I don't know how to explain this nicely - this stuff requires a bit of thinking! 

Note: The Black Board Images are the notes simplified. 












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