Writing the Yang-Mills topological charge using differential forms

Question

I have a very pedestrian knowledge of differential forms and I am having some trouble in a derivation. The topological charge $Q$ in Yang-Mills theories is supposed to be
$$
Q=\int{}q(x)d^4x
$$
where
$$
q(x)=\frac{1}{64\pi^2}\epsilon_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}F^a_{\mu\nu}F^{a\mu\nu}
$$
My text https://munsal.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/marino-lectures2014.pdf equation (4.48) says that
$$
q(x)d^4x=\frac{1}{8\pi^2}Tr(F\wedge{}F)
$$
I am trying to prove this. My attempt is the following
$$
Tr(F\wedge{}F)=\frac{1}{4}Tr(F_{\mu\nu}F_{\alpha\beta}dx^{\mu}\wedge{}dx^{\nu}\wedge{}dx^{\alpha}\wedge{}d^{\beta})
$$
$$
\frac{1}{4}Tr(F^a_{\mu\nu}T^aF^b_{\alpha\beta}T^b{}dx^{\mu}\wedge{}dx^{\nu}\wedge{}dx^{\alpha}\wedge{}d^{\beta})
$$
$$
\frac{1}{8}F^a_{\mu\nu}F^a_{\alpha\beta}dx^{\mu}\wedge{}dx^{\nu}\wedge{}dx^{\alpha}\wedge{}d^{\beta}
$$
From here on I am stuck. I figure I am missing some key identity. Any tip would be appreciated.

Comments

shouldn't $d^\beta$ be $dx^\beta$? should the last two formulas be preceded by an equal sign?

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There is some mistake in the definition of your charge which is a scalar quantity. The indices $\rho,\sigma$ are not contracted.

Answer 1

I am not sure about the normalisations and your contraction is wrong since the charge should be a scalar quantity but you can play with the indices using the fact that 

$$ F_{ab}  F_{mn} dx^a \wedge dx^b \wedge dx^m \wedge dx^n = F_{ab}  F_{mn} \, \epsilon_{efgh} \epsilon^{pqrs}dx^edx^fdx^gdx^g \delta_p^a \delta_{q}^b\delta_{r}^m \delta_s^n$$

possibly times some normalisations that you can fix later. I trust this is correct but I would advise to check it out in books like Freedman's and Van Proyen's Supergravity or similar. After you do all the horrifying horrible contractions you should probably get what you want.

Answer 2

Hint: The $dx^\mu$ anticommute in the wedge product, and $d^4x$ is the wedge product of the $dx^\mu$ in increasing order.