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The Green functions of the Chern-Simons theory quantized in the axial gauge are shown to be calculable as the unique, exact solution of the Ward identities which express the invariance of the theory under the topological supersymmetry of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandhuber , S. Emery , M. Langer , O. Piguet , M. Schweda , S. P. Sorella

Building on Hitchin's work of the Wess-Zumino-Witten term for harmonic maps into Lie groups, we derive a formula for the enclosed volume of a compact CMC surface $f$ in $\mathbb S^3$ in terms of a holonomy on the Chern-Simons bundle and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Lynn Heller , Sebastian Heller , Martin Traizet

We calculate the partition functions of QCD in two dimensions on a cylinder and on a torus in the gauge $\partial_{0} A_{0} = 0$ by integrating explicitly over the non zero modes of the Fourier expansion in the periodic time variable. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Caselle , A. D'Adda , L. Magnea , S. Panzeri

We use the relation between 2d Yang-Mills and Brownian motion to show that 2d Yang-Mills on the cylinder is related to Chern-Simons theory in a class of lens spaces. Alternatively, this can be regarded as 2dYM computing certain correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastian de Haro

We consider the geometric quantisation of Chern--Simons theory for closed genus-one surfaces and semisimple complex groups. First we introduce the natural complexified analogue of the Hitchin connection in K\"{a}hler quantisation, with…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen , Alessandro Malusà , Gabriele Rembado

We find the inconsistency of dimensional reduction and naive dimensional regularization in their applications to Chern-Simons type gauge theories. Further we adopt a consistent dimensional regularization to investigate the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Chaichian , W. F. Chen

We prove polynomial boson-fermion identities for the generating function of the number of partitions of $n$ of the form $n=\sum_{j=1}^{L-1} j f_j$, with $f_1\leq i-1$, $f_{L-1} \leq i'-1$ and $f_j+f_{j+1}\leq k$. The bosonic side of the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 S. O. Warnaar

We present a new application of affine Lie algebras to massive quantum field theory in 2 dimensions, by investigating the $q\to 1$ limit of the q-deformed affine $\hat{sl(2)}$ symmetry of the sine-Gordon theory, this limit occurring at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Andre LeClair

The aim of this paper is to give a complete classification of irreducible finite dimensional representations of the nonstandard q-deformation U'_q(so(n)) (which does not coincide with the Drinfeld-Jimbo quantum algebra U_q(so(n)) of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 N. Z. Iorgov , A. U. Klimyk

Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions formally admits an exact Chern-Simons wavefunction. It is an eigenfunction of the quantum Hamiltonian with zero energy. It is known to be unphysical for a variety of reasons, but it is still interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Witten

We present a new application of affine Lie algebras to massive quantum field theory in 2 dimensions, by investigating the $q\to 1$ limit of the q-deformed affine $\hat{sl(2)}$ symmetry of the sine-Gordon theory, this limit occuring at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Andre LeClair

The invariant integration method for Chern-Simons theory defined on the compact hyperbolic manifold {\Gamma}\H^3 is verified in the semiclassical approximation. The semiclassical limit for the partition function is presented. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Bytsenko , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini

We construct invertible field theories generalizing abelian prequantum spin Chern-Simons theory to manifolds of dimension 4k+3 endowed with a Wu structure of degree 2k+2. After analysing the anomalies of a certain discrete symmetry, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 Samuel Monnier

The Chern-Simons approach has been widely used to explain fractional quantum Hall states in the framework of trial wave functions. In the present paper, we generalise the concept of Chern-Simons transformations to systems with any number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 W. Beugeling , M. O. Goerbig , C. Morais Smith

We consider the Chern-Simons theory with Wilson lines in 3D and in 1D in the BV-BFV formalism of Cattaneo-Mnev-Reshetikhin. In particular, we allow for Wilson lines to end on the boundary of the space-time manifold. In the toy model of 1D…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Anton Alekseev , Yves Barmaz , Pavel Mnev

In this article we describe the relation between the Chern-Simons gauge theory partition function and the partition function defined using the symplectic action functional as the Lagrangian. We show that the partition functions obtained…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lisa C. Jeffrey

The metohod of ortogonal rotations introduced in the previous papers of the author is used for construction of the explicit form the generators of the simple roots for quantum (and ussual) semisimple algebras. All calculations are presented…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Leznov

We present an elementary review of some aspects of Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group SL(N,C). We discuss some of the challenges in defining the theory as a full-fledged TQFT, as well as some successes inspired by the 3d-3d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Tudor Dimofte

We derive some new relationships between matrix models of Chern-Simons gauge theory and of two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory. We show that q-integration of the Stieltjes-Wigert matrix model is the discrete matrix model that describes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Richard J. Szabo , Miguel Tierz

We develop the theory of $q$-characters for quantum affine superalgebras of type $A$ in connection with deformed Cartan matrices. To achieve this, we establish a Khoroshkin-Tolstoy-type multiplicative formula of the universal $R$-matrix of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Sin-Myung Lee