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Chern-Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group on Seifert Fibred 3-Manifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-04 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We consider Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group and present a complete non-perturbative evaluation of the path integral (the partition function and certain expectation values of Wilson loops) on Seifert fibred 3-Manifolds. We use the method of Abelianisation. In certain cases the path integral can be seen to factorize neatly into holomorphic and anti-holomorphic parts. We obtain closed formulae of this factorization for the expectation values of torus knots.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01149,
  title  = {Chern-Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group on Seifert Fibred 3-Manifolds},
  author = {Matthias Blau and George Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01149},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 2 figures