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Hamiltonian Formalism of Topologically Massive Electrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

We consider the four dimensional topologically massive electrodynamics in which a gauge field is interacting with 2nd rank antisymmetric tensor field through a topological interaction. The photon becomes massive by eating the 2nd rank tensor field, which is dual to the Higgs mechanism. We explicitly demonstrate the nature of the mechanism by performing a canonical analysis of the theory and discuss various aspects of it.

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@article{arxiv.1804.00838,
  title  = {Hamiltonian Formalism of Topologically Massive Electrodynamics},
  author = {Taegyu Kim and Seyen Kouwn and Phillial Oh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.00838},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages