Conformal anomaly, Virasoro algebra and Chern-Simons cohomology

DOI10.1007/BF00416507zbMath0611.17007OpenAlexW2052754292MaRDI QIDQ1087628

Ke Wu, Han Ying Guo, Hai-cang Ren

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00416507

zbMATH Keywords

chiral anomalyVirasoro algebraKac-Moody algebrafamily index theoremChern-Simons cohomologyPolyakov stringtwo-dimensional anomalies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Cohomology of Lie (super)algebras (17B56)

Cites Work

• Chiral anomalies in even and odd dimensions
• Quantum anomalies and cocycles on gauge groups
• Unitary representations of some infinite dimensional groups
• Dirac operators coupled to vector potentials

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