Extension of Chern-Simons forms
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-18 v1
Abstract
We investigate metric independent, gauge invariant and closed forms in the generalized YM theory. These forms are polynomial on the corresponding fields strength tensors - curvature forms and are analogous to the Pontryagin-Chern densities in the YM gauge theory. The corresponding secondary characteristic classes have been expressed in integral form in analogy with the Chern-Simons form. Because they are not unique, the secondary forms can be dramatically simplified by the addition of properly chosen differentials of one-step-lower-order forms. Their gauge variation can also be found yielding the potential anomalies in the gauge field theory.
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@article{arxiv.1401.4812,
title = {Extension of Chern-Simons forms},
author = {Spyros Konitopoulos and George Savvidy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4812},
year = {2015}
}
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