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Topological phase, spin Chern-Simons theory and level rank duality on lens space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-05-04 v2

Abstract

We study a method to compute a topological phase factor of partition function for pure Chern-Simons theory incorporating the supersymmetric localization. We develop a regularization preserving supersymmetry and the topological phase appears as a result of the supersymmetric regularization. Applying this method to pure Chern-Simons theory on lens space we compute the background dependent phase factor coming from the Chern-Simons term. We confirm that the partition function computed in this method enjoys a couple of level rank dualities including the one recently proposed in arXiv:1607.07457 for all ranks and levels within our numerical calculation. We also present a phase factor with which the lens space partition function exhibits the perfect match between any level rank dual pair including the total phase.

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@article{arxiv.2108.09300,
  title  = {Topological phase, spin Chern-Simons theory and level rank duality on lens space},
  author = {Naotaka Kubo and Shuichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09300},
  year   = {2022}
}

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36 pages, no figures