The Chern-Simons number as a dynamical variable

DOI10.4310/AMSA.2016.v1.n1.a3zbMath1383.81360arXiv1601.00418OpenAlexW3099725420MaRDI QIDQ1690622

Sam S. C. Wong, S.-H. Henry Tye

Publication date: 19 January 2018

Published in: Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00418

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf invariantbaryon number violationsphaleronChern-Simons number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

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