EXTENSION OF CHERN–SIMONS FORMS AND NEW GAUGE ANOMALIES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X14500274zbMATH Open1284.81197arXiv1205.0027OpenAlexW3104687810MaRDI QIDQ5407904FDOQ5407904

I. Antoniadis, George Savvidy

Publication date: 8 April 2014

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the model of extended non-Abelian tensor gauge fields we have found new metric-independent densities: the exact (2n+3)-forms and their secondary characteristics, the (2n+2)-forms as well as the exact 6n-forms and the corresponding secondary (6n-1)-forms. These forms are the analogs of the Pontryagin densities: the exact 2n-forms and Chern-Simons secondary characteristics, the (2n-1)-forms. The (2n+3)- and 6n-forms are gauge invariant densities, while the (2n+2)- and (6n-1)-forms transform non-trivially under gauge transformations, that we compare with the corresponding transformations of the Chern-Simons secondary characteristics. This construction allows to identify new potential gauge anomalies in various dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0027

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryYang-Mills theoryChern-Simons formsgauge invariant formsmetric independent forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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