Effective actions, relative cohomology and Chern Simons forms
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-30 v3 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Quantum Algebra
q-alg
Abstract
The explicit expression of all the WZW effective actions for a simple group G broken down to a subgroup H is established in a simple and direct way, and the formal similarity of these actions to the Chern-Simons forms is explained. Applications are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9711064,
title = {Effective actions, relative cohomology and Chern Simons forms},
author = {J. A. de Azcarraga and A. J. Macfarlane and J. C. Perez Bueno},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9711064},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages. Latex2e file. Published version