Noether conservation laws in higher-dimensional Chern-Simons theory

Abstract

Though a global Chern-Simons (2k-1)-form is not gauge invariant, this form seen as a Lagrangian of higher-dimensional gauge theory leads to the conservation law of a modified Noether current.

8 pages, appear in Modern Physics Letters A

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