High order Cartan's homotopy formulae and the algebraic approach to anomalies

✍ Scribed by Xing-Chang Song

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 938 KB
• Volume: 171
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(86)90005-9

✦ Synopsis

The homotopy operators in high-dimensional parameter space are introduced and the high order Chern-Simons-like characteristic polynomials are precisely defined. These quantities are closely related to the algebraic approach to anomalies recently proposed by Faddeev.