Descendants of the Chiral Anomaly

2000/11/29 by R. Jackiw, Jackiw, R.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0011275

8 pages, LaTeX, talk presented at the Dirac Medalist Meeting, Trieste, Italy, November 2000

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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.

Citations

• A Particle Field Theorist's Lectures on Supersymmetric, Non-Abelian Fluid Mechanics and d-Branes
• (Constrained) Quantization Without Tears

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