Topological gravity and gauged Wess–Zumino–Witten term

2013/11/22 by P. Salgado, Patricio Salgado, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo +1 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.11.023

17 pages, no figures. To appear in Physics Letters B

openalex publication_date 2013/11/22 · arxiv created 2015/05/12 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

It is shown that the actions for topological gravity in even dimensions found by A. Chamseddine in Ref. [1] is, except a multiplicative constant, a gauged Wess–Zumino–Witten term.

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