The ring structure for equivariant twisted K-theory

Abstract

We prove, under some mild conditions, that the equivariant twisted K-theory group of a crossed module admits a ring structure if the twisting 2-cocycle is 2-multiplicative. We also give an explicit construction of the transgression map $T_1: H^*(Γ;A) \to H^{*-1}((N\rtimes Γ;A)$ for any crossed module $N\to Γ$ and prove that any element in the image is $\infty$-multiplicative. As a consequence, we prove that, under some mild conditions, for a crossed module $N \to \gm$ and any $e \in \check{Z}^3(Γ;S^1)$, that the equivariant twisted K-theory group $K^*_{e,Γ}(N)$ admits a ring structure. As an application, we prove that for a compact, connected and simply connected Lie group G, the equivariant twisted K-theory group $K_{[c], G}^* (G)$ is endowed with a canonical ring structure $K^{i+d}_{[c],G}(G)\otimes K^{j+d}_{[c],G}(G)\to K^{i+j+d}_{[c], G}(G)$, where $d=dim G$ and $[c]\in H^2(G\rtimes G;S^1)$.

47 pages. To appear in Crelle