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By a suitable choice of variables we show that every Connes-Lott model is a Yang-Mills-Higgs model. The contrary is far from being true. Necessary conditions are given. Our analysis is pedestrian and illustrated by examples.
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Iochum, B., Schücker, T. Yang-Mills-Higgs versus Connes-Lott. Commun.Math. Phys. 178, 1–26 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02104906
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