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Renormalization Ambiguities in Chern-Simons Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v3

Abstract

We introduce a new family of gauge invariant regularizations of Chern-Simons theories which generate one-loop renormalizations of the coupling constant of the form kk+2scvk\to k+2 s c_v where ss can take any arbitrary integer value. In the particular case s=0s=0 we get an explicit example of a gauge invariant regularization which does not generate radiative corrections to the bare coupling constant. This ambiguity in the radiative corrections to kk is reminiscent of the Coste-L\"uscher results for the parity anomaly in (2+1) fermionic effective actions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403116,
  title  = {Renormalization Ambiguities in Chern-Simons Theory},
  author = {M. Asorey and F. Falceto and J. L. Lopez and G. Luzon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403116},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, harvmac, no changes, 1 Postscript figure (now included)

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