A note on global gauge anomalies

✍ Scribed by Roberto Catenacci; Augusto Lena

• Book ID: 104343505
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-0440
• DOI: 10.1016/s0393-0440(98)00049-7

✦ Synopsis

Using methods of group cohomology the definitions of global and local anomalies are revisited taking into account the fact that the action of the gauge group on the space of connections is not free. The global S U (2) anomaly appears as an abelian one.