The global topological meaning of cocycles in a gauge group

DOI10.1007/BF00400215zbMath0603.55003OpenAlexW1991873717MaRDI QIDQ1082646

Pei Wang, Boyuan Hou, Bo-Yu Hou

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00400215

zbMATH Keywords

anomaliesČech-de Rham double complexdescent sequence of cocycles in a gauge groupinfinitesimal gauge transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Connections (general theory) (53C05) ?ech types (55N05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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Cites Work

• Some remarks on BRS transformations, anomalies and the cohomology of the Lie algebra of the group of gauge transformations
• Dirac operators coupled to vector potentials

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