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On The Finite Temperature Chern-Simons Coefficient

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-30 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

We compute the exact finite temperature effective action in a 0+1-dimensional field theory containing a topological Chern-Simons term, which has many features in common with 2+1-dimensional Chern-Simons theories. This exact result explains the origin and meaning of puzzling temperature dependent coefficients found in various naive perturbative computations in the higher dimensional models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9612194,
  title  = {On The Finite Temperature Chern-Simons Coefficient},
  author = {Gerald Dunne and Kimyeong Lee and Changhai Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9612194},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages LaTeX; no figures