New Chern-Simons densities in both odd and even dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-01-27 v1
Abstract
After reviewing briefly the dimensional reduction of Chern--Pontryagin densities, we define new Chern--Simons densities expressed in terms of Yang-Mills and Higgs fields. These are defined in all dimensions, including in even dimensional spacetimes. They are constructed by subjecting the dimensionally reduced Chern--Pontryagin densites to further descent by two steps.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1101.5068,
title = {New Chern-Simons densities in both odd and even dimensions},
author = {Eugen Radu and Tigran Tchrakian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5068},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
10 pages, contribution to Sergey Matinyan Festschrift, World Scientific