Duality for topological abelian group stacks and $T$-duality

Abstract

We extend Pontrjagin duality from topological abelian groups to certain locally compact group stacks. To this end we develop a sheaf theory on the big site of topological spaces S in order to prove that the sheaves ExtiShAbS(G,T), i = 1, 2, vanish, where G is the sheaf represented by a locally compact abelian group and T is the circle. As an application of the theory we interpret topological T-duality of principal Tn-bundles in terms of Pontrjagin duality of abelian group stacks.