A cohomological obstruction in higher-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theories

被引：0

作者：

Palese, Marcella ^{[1
]}

Winterroth, Ekkehart ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Torino, Dept Math, Via Carlo Alberto 10, I-10123 Turin, Italy

[2] Univ Torino, Sch Nat Sci, I-10123 Turin, Italy

[3] Lepage Res Inst, 17 November 1, Presov 08116, Slovakia

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOMETRIC METHODS IN MODERN PHYSICS | 2022年 / 19卷 / 03期

关键词：

Cohomological formulation of the calculus of variations; Chern-Weil theory; Chern-Simons theories; GRAVITY;

D O I：

10.1142/S0219887822500323

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We study a set of cohomology classes which emerge in the cohomological formulations of the calculus of variations as obstructions to the existence of (global) solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations of Chern-Simons gauge theories in higher dimensions 2p + 1 > 3.

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