Global definition of nonlinear sigma model and some consequences

DOI10.1063/1.525161zbMath0469.58019OpenAlexW2071129885MaRDI QIDQ3923305

Roberto Percacci

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

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingaction functionalnonlinear sigma modelHiggs fieldsminimal coupling to a Yang-Mills fieldnontrivial fiber bundle over space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General relativity (83C99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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Cites Work

• A Report on Harmonic Maps

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