group cohomology, nonabelian group cohomology, Lie group cohomology
cohomology with constant coefficients / with a local system of coefficients
differential cohomology
algebraic topology – application of higher algebra and higher category theory to the study of (stable) homotopy theory
What is called symplectic K-theory (denoted ) or, equivalently, quaternionic K-theory (denoted ) is the topological K-theory of quaternionic vector bundles.
This is in direct analogy with how complex K-theory (KU) is the topological K-theory of complex vector bundles and KO that of real vector bundles.
In fact, quaternionic K-theory is equivalently KO-theory in degrees which are multiples of 4.
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In solid state physics, under the K-theory classification of topological phases of matter, quaternionic K-theory is thought to classify crystalline topological insulator-phases of materials whose electron-dynamics respects time-reversal symmetry (this makes the classification be by ) but no parity symmetry? (this restricts the classification further to ). Then spin-less such phases are classified by , while spin-ful such phases are classified by .
In this context, the Kane-Mele invariant is a projection from the quaternionic K-theory of the Brillouin torus of a material, which detects (in particular, for ) the non-triviality of the graphene-phase (which is a time-reversal-symmetric topological insulator when its spin-orbit coupling is taken into account).
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