Chern--Simons Terms as an Example of the Relations Between Mathematics and Physics
Mathematical Physics
2009-11-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
The inevitability of Chern--Simons terms in constructing a variety of physical models, and the mathematical advances they in turn generate, illustrates the unexpected but profound interactions between the two disciplines.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/9805020,
title = {Chern--Simons Terms as an Example of the Relations Between Mathematics and Physics},
author = {S. Deser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/9805020},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages. Contribution to "Relations Between Mathematics and Physics", IHES Anniversary Volume. Title and Abstract changes