1999/08/16 by Måns Henningson, Mans Henningson, Bengt E. W. Nilsson +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1999/09/008
published as JHEP 9909:008,1999 · 11 pages. Latex
arxiv created 1999/08/16 · openalex publication_date 1999/09/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider a free (2 k)-form gauge-field on a Euclidean (4 k + 2)-manifold. The parameters needed to specify the action and the gauge-invariant observables take their values in spaces with natural complex structures. We show that the correlation functions can be written as a finite sum of terms, each of which is a product of a holomorphic and an anti-holomorphic factor. The holomorphic factors are naturally interpreted as correlation functions for a chiral (2 k)-form, i.e. a (2 k)-form with a self-dual (2 k + 1)-form field strength, after Wick rotation to a Minkowski signature.