Universal connections, gauge anomalies and Lie group cohomology

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/19/5/001zbMath0619.55011OpenAlexW2024627461WikidataQ115293723 ScholiaQ115293723MaRDI QIDQ3756160

R. F. Picken

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/19/5/001

zbMATH Keywords

de Rham cohomologyprincipal bundlegauge anomaliesquantized fieldEhresmann connectionChern-Simons characterghost fieldcohomology of Lie groupsghost operatorBRS transformationBRS-operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99)

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