Descendants of the Chiral Anomaly
arXiv:hep-th/0011275
Abstract
Chern-Simons terms are well-known descendants of chiral anomalies, when the latter are presented as total derivatives. Here I explain that also Chern-Simons terms, when defined on a 3-manifold, may be expressed as total derivatives.
8 pages, LaTeX, talk presented at the Dirac Medalist Meeting, Trieste, Italy, November 2000