On the Quantization of the Abelian Chern-Simons Coefficient at Finite Temperature
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v2
Abstract
We show that when the Abelian \CS\ theory coupled to matter fields is quantized in a vacuum with non vanishing magnetic flux (or electric charge), the requirement of gauge invariance at finite temperature leads to the quantization of the \CS\ coefficient and its quantum corrections, in a manner similar to the non-Abelian case.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9509110,
title = {On the Quantization of the Abelian Chern-Simons Coefficient at Finite Temperature},
author = {N. Bralic and C. D. Fosco and F. A. Schaposnik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9509110},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, LaTeX, no figures, no special macros. Some discussion and references added. A minor error corrected. Final version to appear in Phys. Lett. B