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Nonperturbative universal Chern-Simons theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-12 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Closed simple integral representation through Vogel's universal parameters is found both for perturbative and nonperturbative (which is inverse invariant group volume) parts of free energy of Chern-Simons theory on S3S^3. This proves the universality of that partition function. For classical groups it manifestly satisfy N \rightarrow -N duality, in apparent contradiction with previously used ones. For SU(N) we show that asymptotic of nonperturbative part of our partition function coincides with that of Barnes G-function, recover Chern-Simons/topological string duality in genus expansion and resolve abovementioned contradiction. We discuss few possible directions of development of these results: derivation of representation of free energy through Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, possible appearance of non-perturbative additional terms, 1/N expansion for exceptional groups, duality between string coupling constant and K\"ahler parameters, etc.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1507,
  title  = {Nonperturbative universal Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {R. L. Mkrtchyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1507},
  year   = {2015}
}

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