%0 Journal Article %T The Wess-Zumino Consistency Condition For p-Form Gauge Theories %A Marc Henneaux %A Bernard Knaepen %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00155-8 %X The general solution of the antifield-independent Wess-Zumino consistency condition is worked out for models involving exterior form gauge fields of arbitrary degree. We consider both the free theory and theories with Chapline-Manton couplings. Our approach relies on solving the full set of descent equations by starting from the last element down ("bottom"). %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9812140v2