Yang-Mills as massive Chern-Simons theory: a third way to three-dimensional gauge theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-13 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The Yang-Mills (YM) equation in three spacetime dimensions (3D) can be modified to include a novel parity-preserving interaction term, with inverse mass parameter, in addition to a possible topological mass term. The novelty is that the modified YM equation is not the Euler-Lagrange equation of any gauge-invariant local action for the YM gauge potential alone. Instead, consistency is achieved in the "third way" exploited by 3D "minimal massive gravity". We relate our results to the "novel Higgs mechanism" for Chern-Simons gauge theories.
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@article{arxiv.1501.07548,
title = {Yang-Mills as massive Chern-Simons theory: a third way to three-dimensional gauge theories},
author = {Alex S. Arvanitakis and Alexander Sevrin and Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07548},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages. New title in v.2 to accord with published version. Also includes minor corrections and two additional paragraphs