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Holonomy and the Wess-Zumino term

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The concept of a holonomy term in a Lagrangian is introduced. It unifies the idea of the interaction term in the Dirac monopole and the Wess-Zumino term. In particular, it provides a dynamical interpretation of the Kac-Moody cocycle on a loop group.

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Adelaide, 5001, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    A. L. Carey

  2. School of Mathematical Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, 5042, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia

    M. K. Murray

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Carey, A.L., Murray, M.K. Holonomy and the Wess-Zumino term. Letters in Mathematical Physics 12, 323–327 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402666

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