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

DOI10.1142/S0219887822500323MaRDI QIDQ6196399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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)

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 $2p+1>3$.

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