Chern–Simons form
Forma de Chern-Simons
- Date
- 1974 · confidence high
- Place
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Credited to
- Shiing-Shen Chern and Jim Simons (1974)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Secondary characteristic classes defined by Shiing-Shen Chern and Jim Simons in their 1974 paper 'Characteristic Forms and Geometric Invariants', which gave rise to Chern–Simons theory.
What it led to
- Chern–Simons topological quantum field theory
- advances in condensed matter physics (quantum Hall effect)
- topological invariants in knot theory
- connections between differential geometry and theoretical physics