The evaluation map in field theory, sigma-models and strings. I

DOI10.1007/BF01217813zbMath0645.53071OpenAlexW2069668689WikidataQ64038618 ScholiaQ64038618MaRDI QIDQ1103217

James D. Stasheff, Losiano Bonora, Maurizio Rinaldi, Paolo Cotta-Ramusino

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01217813

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoriesevaluation mapprincipal fibre bundlegauge anomaliesgeometrical constraintsanomalies in field theoriesanomaly cancellation mechanismGreen- Schwarz superstring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99)

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