A cohomological obstruction in higher dimensional Chern--Simons gauge theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-03-16 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
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 .
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@article{arxiv.2111.09247,
title = {A cohomological obstruction in higher dimensional Chern--Simons gauge theories},
author = {Marcella Palese and Ekkehart Winterroth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09247},
year = {2022}
}
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20 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.03037