Revisiting Wess-Zumino-Witten terms

We revisit various topological issues concerning four-dimensional ungauged and gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) terms for $SU$ and $SO$ quantum chromodynamics (QCD), from the modern bordism point of view. We explain, for example, why the definition of the $4d$ WZW terms requires the spin structure...

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Main Author: Yasunori Lee, Kantaro Ohmori, Yuji Tachikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2021-03-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.10.3.061