Dimensional reduction and higher-order topological invariants: Descent by even steps and applications
- 15 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 33 (4) , 1177-1180
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.33.1177
Abstract
Surface integrals relevant to the study of gauge field vacua and anomalies are derived by the dimensional reduction of the third and fourth Chern-Pontryagin integrals on =× and =×. Their relevance to physical applications is briefly discussed.
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