COVARIANT LAGRANGIAN FORMALISM FOR CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES

2005/11/30 by A. Borowiec, L. Fatibene, M. Ferraris +2 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Chern–Simons theory #Classical mechanics #Covariant transformation #Formalism (music) #Gauge theory #Hamiltonian formalism #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Lagrangian #Mathematical physics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0219887807001990

published as Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.3:755-774,2006; Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.4:277,2007 · 23 pages, refs. added

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Abstract

We review the global formalism for Chern–Simons theories. Superpotentials are computed and the relation between the global Chern–Simons Lagrangian and the augmented variational principle is investigated.

Citations

• Natural and gauge natural formalism for classical field theorie[s] : a geometric perspective including spinors and gauge theories

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