Superconnections and the Higgs field

DOI10.1063/1.532724zbMath0949.58034arXivhep-th/9801040OpenAlexW3098475125MaRDI QIDQ4701884

Gert Roepstorff

Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9801040

zbMATH Keywords

Higgs fieldsuperconnection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15)

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