mathematics, the Chern–Simons forms are certain secondary characteristic classes. The theory is named for Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, co-authors...

after mathematicians Shiing-Shen Chern and James Harris Simons, who introduced the Chern–Simons 3-form. In the Chern–Simons theory, the action is proportional...

from a 1974 paper written jointly with Jim Simons; and also gauge theory, Chern–Simons form, Chern-Simons field theory. CS theory now has great importance...

hedge fund manager of all time". Simons developed the Chern–Simons form (with Shiing-Shen Chern), and contributed to the development of string theory...

mathematics, ∞-Chern–Simons theory (not to be confused with infinite-dimensional Chern–Simons theory) is a generalized formulation of Chern–Simons theory from...

Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Simons who first studied Chern–Simons forms which appear in the action of Chern–Simons theory...

mathematical physics, four-dimensional Chern–Simons theory, also known as semi-holomorphic or semi-topological Chern–Simons theory, is a quantum field theory...

related to the same topic. Chern–Weil homomorphism Chern class Chern–Simons form Chern–Simons theory Chern's conjecture (affine geometry) Pontryagin number...

infinite-dimensional Chern–Simons theory (not to be confused with ∞-Chern–Simons theory) is a generalization of Chern–Simons theory to manifolds with...

Bianchi identities Einstein tensor Einstein field equations General theory of relativity Chern-Simons form Curvature of Riemannian manifolds Gauge theory...

string theory, Chern–Simons theory, knot theory, and Gromov–Witten invariants. Chern classes were introduced by Shiing-Shen Chern (1946). Chern classes are...

whose curvature form ω is positive (since ω is then a Kähler form that represents the first Chern class of L in H2(X, Z)). The Kähler form ω that satisfies...

Beauville, A. (1983). "Variétés Kähleriennes dont la première classe de Chern est nulle". J. Differential Geom. 18 (4): 755–782. Feix, B. (2001). "Hyperkähler...

quaternionic Pontryagin class, for vector bundles with quaternion structure. Chern–Simons form Hirzebruch signature theorem Novikov, S. P. (1964). "Homotopically...

theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. A black...

Instantons Chern–Simons form Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound Exceptional Lie groups (G2, F4, E6, E7, E8) ADE classification Dirac string p-form electrodynamics...

manifold: the first Chern class of the holomorphic tangent bundle must be zero. The necessity of this condition was previously known by Chern–Weil theory. Beyond...

example, a telegraph message, led him unexpectedly to a formula with the same form as Boltzmann's. In an article in the August 2003 issue of Scientific American...

content consists only of gauge fields Yang–Mills theory Proca theory Chern–Simons theory Spinor and scalar Yukawa model Scalar and gauge Scalar electrodynamics...

De Rham cohomology Obstruction theory Characteristic class Chern class Chern–Simons form Pontryagin class Pontryagin number Stiefel–Whitney class Poincaré...

classical physics. Symplectic geometry studies spaces equipped with a symplectic form, a mathematical tool that can be used to compute area in two-dimensional...

{\displaystyle c_{i}(X)} is the i-th Chern class of the tangent bundle. Since K X {\displaystyle K_{X}} is trivial, its first Chern class c 1 ( K X ) = − c 1 (...

conjectured that compact complex manifolds of Kähler type with vanishing first Chern class always admit Ricci-flat Kähler metrics, and Shing-Tung Yau (1978)...

and this remained consistent with the simplified proof later given by Jim Simons in 1962. Although not a single example of such a manifold had yet been discovered...

subject in question has no particular relation to superluminal travel (a form of technobabble, akin to positronic brain). Lorentz-violating neutrino oscillations...

Maldacena, it is closely related to another quantum field theory called Chern–Simons theory. The latter theory was popularized by Witten in the late 1980s...

exceptional simple Lie groups. F4 has rank 4 and dimension 52. The compact form is simply connected and its outer automorphism group is the trivial group...

here are closed, that this momentum can only take on discrete values of the form x ˙ = n / R {\displaystyle {\dot {x}}=n/R} for some integer n {\displaystyle...

In theoretical physics, p-form electrodynamics is a generalization of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. We have a 1-form A {\displaystyle \mathbf {A}...

Instantons Chern–Simons form Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound Exceptional Lie groups G2, F4, E6, E7, E8 ADE classification Dirac string P-form electrodynamics...