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Integer Quantization of the Chern-Simons Coefficient in a Broken Phase

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We consider a spontaneously broken nonabelian topologically massive gauge theory in a broken phase possessing a residual nonabelian symmetry. Recently there has been some question concerning the renormalization of the Chern-Simons coefficient in such a broken phase. We show that, in this broken vacuum, the renormalized ratio of the Chern-Simons coupling to the gauge coupling is shifted by 1/4π1/4\pi times an integer, preserving the usual integer quantization condition on the bare parameters.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9411062,
  title  = {Integer Quantization of the Chern-Simons Coefficient in a Broken Phase},
  author = {L. Chen and G. Dunne and K. Haller and E. Lim-Lombridas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9411062},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages LaTeX, two figures available upon request