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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 2p+1>32p+1 > 3.

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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