Four-dimensional Wess--Zumino--Witten actions

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(02)00220-6zbMath1031.81057arXivmath/0105090MaRDI QIDQ1400165

Tosiaki Kori

Publication date: 13 August 2003

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105090

zbMATH Keywords

topological field theoryWess-Zumino-Witten actionsAxiomatic field theoriesConformally flat four-manifoldsPolyakov-Wiegmann formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

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