Chern--Simons Terms as an Example of the Relations Between Mathematics and Physics
Abstract
The inevitability of Chern--Simons terms in constructing a variety of physical models, and the mathematical advances they in turn generate, illustrates the unexpected but profound interactions between the two disciplines.
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