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The algebraic structure of chiral anomalies is made globally valid on non-trivial bundles by the introduction of a fixed background connection. Some of the techniques used in the study of the anomaly are improved or generalized, including a systematic way of generating towers of “descent equations”.
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This work was supported in part by the Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 and in part by the National Science Foundation under research grant PHY81-18547
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Mañes, J., Stora, R. & Zumino, B. Algebraic study of chiral anomalies. Commun.Math. Phys. 102, 157–174 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01208825
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