Chern--Simons Terms as an Example of the Relations Between Mathematics and Physics
arXiv:math-ph/9805020
Abstract
The inevitability of Chern--Simons terms in constructing a variety of physical models, and the mathematical advances they in turn generate, illustrates the unexpected but profound interactions between the two disciplines.
8 pages. Contribution to "Relations Between Mathematics and Physics", IHES Anniversary Volume. Title and Abstract changes