Simple Formulas for Generating Chern-Simons Basic Invariant Polynomials by Repeated Exterior Differentiation

1998/10/14 by C. C. Briggs, Briggs, C. C.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9810046

2 pages, PostScript file

arxiv created 1998/10/14 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Simple formulas are given for generating Chern-Simons basic invariant polynomials by repeated exterior differentiation for n-dimensional differentiable manifolds having a general linear connection.

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