Chern-Weil global symmetries and how quantum gravity avoids them

Abstract We draw attention to a class of generalized global symmetries, which we call “Chern-Weil global symmetries,” that arise ubiquitously in gauge theories. The Noether currents of these Chern-Weil global symmetries are given by wedge products of gauge field strengths, such as F 2 ∧ H 3 and tr(...

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Main Authors: Ben Heidenreich, Jacob McNamara, Miguel Montero, Matthew Reece, Tom Rudelius, Irene Valenzuela
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: SpringerOpen 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/175c60efb2b74b4c9d9844b33ab413a8
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