Gauge interpretation of characteristic classes

DOI10.4310/MRL.2001.V8.N4.A6MaRDI QIDQ5953001zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Castrillón López, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 2001

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/mrl.2001.v8.n4.a6

zbMATH Keywords

gauge invariancecharacteristic classesprincipal connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

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