A cohomological obstruction in higher-dimensional Chern–Simons gauge theories

DOI10.1142/S0219887822500323arXiv2111.09247OpenAlexW3212170227MaRDI QIDQ6196399FDOQ6196399

Authors: Marcella Palese, E. Winterroth 

Publication date: 14 March 2024

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

Abstract: We study a set of cohomology classes which emerge in the cohomological formulations of the calculus of variations as obstructions to the existence of (global) solutions of the Euler--Lagrange equations of Chern--Simons gauge theories in higher dimensions $2p+1>3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09247

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Weil theoryChern-Simons theoriescohomological formulation of the calculus of variations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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