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

BRS transformationBRS-operatorChern-Simons charactercohomology of Lie groupsde Rham cohomologyEhresmann connectiongauge anomaliesghost fieldghost operatorprincipal bundlequantized field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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