Topological gauge theories and group cohomology

DOI10.1007/BF02096988zbMath0703.58011OpenAlexW2034225373MaRDI QIDQ916169

Publication date: 1990

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02096988

zbMATH Keywords

topological gauge theories Chern-Simons Wess-Zumino

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

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