Twisted K-theory, old and new
Twisted K-theory has its main origin in the paper with P. Donovan
http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1970__38__5_0
The objective of this lecture is to revisit the subject with more modern methods in
the light of new developments inspired by Mathematical Physics. See Witten (Arxiv
hep-th/9810188), J. Rosenberg
http://anziamj.austms.org.au/JAMSA/V47/Part3/Rosenberg.html
, Laurent-Gentoux, Tu, Xu (ArXiv math/0306138) and Atiyah, Segal (ArXiv math/0407054),
among many other authors.
The unifiyng theme in our presentation is the notion of K-theory of Z/2-graded algebras, from which most of the classical theorems in twisted K-theory are derived.
We also prove some new results in the subject : a Thom isomorphism using Fredholm
operators in an Hilbert space, explicit computations in the equivariant case and new
Adams operations.