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What is a nonlinear field?
I have read two possible definitions. A nonlinear field is
A field taking values on a manifold.
A field whose equation is nonlinear.
What do you understand by a nonlinear field or a nonlinear ...
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What is a chiral field?
I have not found a clear definition of this. A teacher told me that it was a field having some constrains but that is not very convincing for me. He told me also that some examples could be skyrme ...
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Models of higher Chern-Simons type
It has long been clear that (the action functional of) Chern-Simons theory has various higher analogs and variations of interest. This includes of course traditional higher dimensional Chern-Simons ...
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Group Cohomology and Topological Field Theories
I have a two-part question:
First and foremost: I have been going through the paper by Dijkgraaf and Witten "Group Cohomology and Topological Field Theories". Here they give a general definition for ...
