Global definition of nonlinear sigma model and some consequences
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Publication:3923305
DOI10.1063/1.525161zbMath0469.58019MaRDI QIDQ3923305
Publication date: 1981
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525161
spontaneous symmetry breaking; action functional; nonlinear sigma model; Higgs fields; minimal coupling to a Yang-Mills field; nontrivial fiber bundle over space-time
83C99: General relativity
53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences
58J90: Applications of PDEs on manifolds
53C05: Connections (general theory)
55R10: Fiber bundles in algebraic topology
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