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Global anomalies and homotopy group cocycles

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A consistency condition for global anomalies is expressed in terms of cocycles of homotopy groups and is used to characterise all possible global anomalies.

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  1. Institut für Theorie der Elementarteilchen, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, FB 20, WE 4, D-1000, Berlin 33, West Germany

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Picken, R.F. Global anomalies and homotopy group cocycles. Lett Math Phys 14, 1–5 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403463

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