The Chern-Simons number as a dynamical variable

DOI10.4310/AMSA.2016.V1.N1.A3MaRDI QIDQ1690622zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S.-H. Henry Tye, Sam S. C. Wong

Publication date 19 January 2018

Published in Annals of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00418

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf invariantbaryon number violationsphaleronChern-Simons number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

Abstract: In the standard electroweak theory that describes nature, the Chern-Simons number associated with the vacua as well as the unstable sphaleron solutions play a crucial role in the baryon number violating processes. We recall why the Chern-Simons number should be generalized from a set of discrete values to a dynamical (quantum) variable. Via the construction of an appropriate Hopf invariant and the winding number, we discuss how the geometric information in the gauge fields is also captured in the Higgs field. We then discuss the choice of the Hopf variable in relation to the Chern-Simons variable.

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