Universal connections, gauge anomalies and Lie group cohomology

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/19/5/001MaRDI QIDQ3756160zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Roger Picken

Publication date 1986

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/19/5/001

zbMATH Keywords

de Rham cohomologyprincipal bundlequantized fieldEhresmann connectiongauge anomaliesChern-Simons characterghost fieldcohomology of Lie groupsghost operatorBRS transformationBRS-operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

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