Descendants of the Chiral Anomaly
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
Chern-Simons terms are well-known descendants of chiral anomalies, when the latter are presented as total derivatives. Here I explain that also Chern-Simons terms, when defined on a 3-manifold, may be expressed as total derivatives.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0011275,
title = {Descendants of the Chiral Anomaly},
author = {R. Jackiw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0011275},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, LaTeX, talk presented at the Dirac Medalist Meeting, Trieste, Italy, November 2000