A geometrical description of local and global anomalies

DOI10.1007/BF00402259zbMath0692.53043OpenAlexW2094482787MaRDI QIDQ583636

Roberto Catenacci, Gian Pietro Pirola

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00402259

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoriesstring theoriesanomaly cancellationanomaliesG-line bundlenonlinear \(\sigma\)-models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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Bundle geometry of the connection space, covariant Hamiltonian formalism, the problem of boundaries in gauge theories, and the dressing field method, A note on global gauge anomalies.

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