2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/50425Chern-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 2000High Energy Physics - TheoryMathematical Physicstext