Chern-Simons Theories on Noncommutative Plane
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v3
Abstract
We investigate U(N) Chern-Simons theories on noncommutative plane. We show that for the theories to be consistent quantum mechanically, the coefficient of the Chern-Simons term should be quantized with an integer . This is a surprise for the U(1) gauge theory. When uniform background charge density is present, the quantization rule changes to with noncommutative parameter . With the exact expression for the angular momentum, we argue in the U(1) theory that charged particles in the symmetric phase carry fractional spin and vortices in the broken phase carry half-integer or integer spin .
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0102188,
title = {Chern-Simons Theories on Noncommutative Plane},
author = {Dongsu Bak and Kimyeong Lee and Jeong-Hyuck Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0102188},
year = {2009}
}
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revtex, two columns, 4 pages