Gauge fixing and metric independence in topological quantum theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-06-29 v1
Abstract
We consider topological gauge theories in three dimensions which are defined by metric independent lagrangians. It has been claimed that the functional integration necessarily depends nontrivially on the gauge-fixing metric. We demonstrate that the partition function and the mean values of the gauge invariant observables do not really depend on the gauge-fixing metric.
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@article{arxiv.2205.03875,
title = {Gauge fixing and metric independence in topological quantum theories},
author = {Enore Guadagnini and Federico Rottoli and Frank Thuillier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03875},
year = {2022}
}
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15 pages, 2 figures