Topological obstructions to the representability of functions by quadratures

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Khovanskii
2013 ◽  
Vol 197 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavle V. M. Blagojević ◽  
Boris Bukh ◽  
Roman Karasev

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1197-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
HISHAM SATI ◽  
URS SCHREIBER ◽  
JIM STASHEFF

We study the cohomological physics of fivebranes in type II and heterotic string theory. We give an interpretation of the one-loop term in type IIA, which involves the first and second Pontrjagin classes of spacetime, in terms of obstructions to having bundles with certain structure groups. Using a generalization of the Green–Schwarz anomaly cancellation in heterotic string theory which demands the target space to have a String structure, we observe that the "magnetic dual" version of the anomaly cancellation condition can be read as a higher analog of String structure, which we call Fivebrane structure. This involves lifts of orthogonal and unitary structures through higher connected covers which are not just 3- but even 7-connected. We discuss the topological obstructions to the existence of Fivebrane structures. The dual version of the anomaly cancellation points to a relation of string and Fivebrane structures under electric-magnetic duality.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (32) ◽  
pp. 3057-3070
Author(s):  
NIKOLAOS A. BATAKIS ◽  
ALEXANDROS A. KEHAGIAS

It is shown that, due to topological obstructions, the effective action of a gauge theory in a multiple-connected space-time containing one fermion n-plet in the fundamental representation of the covering group of the gauge group is not, in general, BRST-invariant. A resolution to this problem is attained with the introduction of identical copies of the original n-plet, one for each of the effectively independent components of the symmetry group, and a truly invariant generating functional is constructed. Examples with explicit gauge groups and their possible relevance to the family problem or to the SU(3) flavors of quarks are briefly discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 196 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos-Raent Onti ◽  
Theodoros Vlachos

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