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The authors of this article make yet another proposal, and to that end, define what they call the \\textit{completed periodic exotic twisted \\(\\mathbb{T}\\)-equivariant cohomology} \\(h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(M,\\nabla^\\xi;H)\\); here \\(M\\) is a (possibly infinite dimensional) manifold with an action of the \\(1\\)-torus \\(\\mathbb{T}\\); \\(\\xi\\) a \\(\\mathbb{T}\\)-equivariant complex line bundle over \\(M\\); \\(\\nabla^\\xi\\) a \\(\\mathbb{T}\\)-invariant connection on \\(\\xi\\); and \\(H\\) a closed \\(3\\)-form (called \\(H\\)-flux) satisfying a certain equivariance condition. More precisely, it is the cohomology of the complex \\(\\Omega^\\bullet(M,\\xi)^{\\mathbb{T}} [[ u,u^{-1} ]]\\) with the differential \\(\\nabla^\\xi-ui_K+u^{-1}H\\), where \\(i_K\\) denotes contraction by the Killing vector field \\(K\\), and \\(u\\) is an indeterminate of degree \\(2\\).  Once they define \\(h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(M,\\nabla^\\xi;H)\\), the authors then establish a localization theorem: If \\(F\\) is the fixed point set of the \\(\\mathbb{T}\\)-action on \\(M\\) (and provided that \\(F\\) admits a certain invariant neighborhood in \\(M\\)), the embedding \\(i: F\\hookrightarrow M\\) induces the following isomorphism:  \\[  h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(M,\\nabla^\\xi;H) \\cong h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(F,i^*\\nabla^\\xi;i^*H)=H\\{(\\Omega^\\bullet(F,i^*\\xi)[[u,u^{-1}]], i^*\\nabla^\\xi+u^{-1}i^*H)\\}.  \\]  With the above localization map at hand, the authors then define what they call the \\textit{twisted Bismut-Chern character}  \\[  \\mathrm{BCh}_H: K^\\bullet(Z,H)\\to h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(LZ,\\nabla^\\xi;\\bar{H}),  \\]  where \\(\\bar H\\) is an extension of \\(H\\)-flux on the manifold \\(Z\\) to its loop space \\(LZ\\), and \\(\\xi\\) is a line bundle, with a natural connection \\(\\nabla^\\xi\\), that arises from the gerbe associated with \\(H\\). The authors demonstrate that the twisted Bismut-Chern character fits into the following commutative diagram:  \\[  \\begin{tikzcd} K^\\bullet (Z,H) \\ar[r,\"{\\mathrm{BCh}_H}\"] \\ar[d, \"\\mathrm{Ch}_H\" '] & h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}(LZ,\\nabla^\\xi; H) \\ar[d, \"\\mathrm{localization}\"] \\\\ H\\{(\\Omega^\\bullet(Z)[[u,u^{-1}]], d+u^{-1}H)\\} \\ar[r, equal] & H\\{(\\Omega^\\bullet(Z)[[u,u^{-1}]], d+u^{-1} H)\\} \\end{tikzcd} \\]  The vertical map \\(\\mathrm{Ch}_H\\) is the twisted Chern character defined in [\\textit{V. Mathai} and \\textit{D. Stevenson}, Commun. Math. Phys. 235, No. 1, 161--186 (2003; Zbl 1030.19004)]. This diagram embodies the authors' proposal regarding the D-brane charges mentioned in the begining of this review.  As a corollary of the localization theorem, the authors derive an isomorphism in terms of \\(h^\\bullet_{\\mathbb{T}}\\)-cohomology for \\(Z\\) and its \\(T\\)-dual \\(\\hat{Z}\\) that is compatible with the T-duality isomorphism established by P. Bouwknegt, J. Evslin and V. Mathai in [\\textit{P. Bouwknegt} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 249, No. 2, 383--415 (2004; Zbl 1062.81119)] and [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, No. 18, Article ID181601, 3 p. 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