Reducing the Chern-Simons term by a symmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-11-18 v1
Abstract
Reducing a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term by a symmetry yields other topologically interesting structures. Specifically, reducing by radial symmetry results in a 1-dimensional quantum mechanical model, which has recently been used in an analysis of finite-temperature Chern-Simons theory. The radially symmetric expression may be inserted into 3-dimensional monopole or (2+1)-dimensional instanton equations, where it eliminates the monopole or instanton solutions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712087,
title = {Reducing the Chern-Simons term by a symmetry},
author = {R. Jackiw and S. -Y. Pi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712087},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Email correspondence to jackiw@mitlns.mit.edu ; 7 pages, REVTeX