2011/01/26 by Eugen Radu, Radu, Eugen, Tigran Tchrakian +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1101.5068
10 pages, contribution to Sergey Matinyan Festschrift, World Scientific
arxiv created 2011/01/26 · arxiv updated 2011/01/27
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.