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We quantize the Chern-Simons-Proca theory in three dimensions by using the Batalin-Tyutin Hamiltonian method, which systematically embeds second class constraint system into first class by introducing new fields in the extended phase space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Ei-Byung Park , Yong-Wan Kim , Young-Jai Park , Yongduk Kim , Won Tae Kim

Chern-Simons Theories with gauge super-groups appear naturally in string theory and they possess interesting applications in mathematics, e.g. for the construction of knot and link invariants. This paper is the first in a series where we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-26 N. Aghaei , A. M. Gainutdinov , M. Pawelkiewicz , V. Schomerus

This paper presents an improvement to the four-dimensional spinfoam model with cosmological constant ($\Lambda$-SF model) in loop quantum gravity. The original $\Lambda$-SF model, defined via ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ Chern-Simons theory on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Muxin Han , Qiaoyin Pan

This paper introduces a general perturbative quantization scheme for gauge theories on manifolds with boundary, compatible with cutting and gluing, in the cohomological symplectic (BV-BFV) formalism. Explicit examples, like abelian BF…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Alberto S. Cattaneo , Pavel Mnev , Nicolai Reshetikhin

We study the Schr\"odinger equation in quantum field theory (QFT) in its functional formulation. In this approach quantum correlation functions can be expressed as classical expectation values over (complex) stochastic processes. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Z. Haba

We propose a global model which accounts for all the observed quantum Hall states in terms of an abelian doublet of Chern-Simons gauge fields, with the strength of the Chern-Simons term given by a coupling matrix. The model is employed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Sudhansu S. Mandal , V. Ravishankar

The Feynman path integral of ordinary quantum mechanics is complexified and it is shown that possible integration cycles for this complexified integral are associated with branes in a two-dimensional A-model. This provides a fairly direct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Edward Witten

In the late 1980s Witten used the Chern-Simons form of a connection to construct new invariants of 3-manifolds and knots, recovering in particular the Jones invariants. Since then the associated topological quantum field theory (TQFT) has…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2008-10-28 Daniel S. Freed

We study the Quantum Field Theory of nonrelativistic bosons coupled to a Chern--Simons gauge field at nonzero particle density. This field theory is relevant to the study of anyon superconductors in which the anyons are described as {\bf…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Nathan Weiss

We propose a classical model for the non-Abelian Chern-Simons theory coupled to $N$ point-like sources and quantize the system using the BRST technique. The resulting quantum mechanics provides a unified framework for fractional spin, braid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Taejin Lee , Phillial Oh

The Batalin-Vilkovisky method (BV) is the most powerful method to analyze functional integrals with (infinite-dimensional) gauge symmetries presently known. It has been invented to fix gauges associated with symmetries that do not close…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Carlo Albert , Bea Bleile , Jürg Fröhlich

We present a construction of the double copy for gauge theories that exhibit off-shell color-kinematics duality within the Batalin-Vilkovitsky (BV) formalism. As illustrative examples, we consider the double copies of Chern-Simons theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Maor Ben-Shahar , Francesco Bonechi , Maxim Zabzine

The Batalin--Vilkovisky (BV) formalism is a useful framework to study gauge theories. We summarize a simple procedure to find a a gauge--fixed action in this language and a way to obtain one--loop anomalies. Calculations involving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. Vandoren , A. Van Proeyen

We consider the superspace of D=3, N=5 supersymmetry using SO(5)/U(2) harmonic coordinates. Three analytic N=5 gauge superfields depend on three vector and six harmonic bosonic coordinates and also on six Grassmann coordinates.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 B. M. Zupnik

% A new, formal, non-combinatorial approach to invariants of % three-dimensional manifolds of Reshetikhin, Turaev and % Witten in the framework of non-perturbative topological % quantum Chern-Simons theory, corresponding to an arbitrary %…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Boguslaw Broda

We search for superspace Chern-Simons-like higher-derivative terms in the low energy effective actions of supersymmetric theories in four dimensions. Superspace Chern-Simons-like terms are those gauge-invariant terms which cannot be written…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Philip C. Argyres , Adel M. Awad , Gregory A. Braun , F. Paul Esposito

We present a gauged Lifshitz Lagrangian including second and forth order spatial derivatives of the scalar field and a Chern-Simons term, and study non-trivial solutions of the classical equations of motion. While the coefficient beta of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Gustavo Lozano , Fidel A. Schaposnik , Gianni Tallarita

In the classical Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism, the BV operator $\Delta$ is a differential operator of order two with respect to the commutative product. In the differential graded setting, it is known that if the BV operator is…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Vladimir Dotsenko , Sergey Shadrin , Pedro Tamaroff

The BV formalism is a well-established method for analyzing symmetries and quantization of field theories. In this paper we use the BV formalism to derive partition functions of gauge invariant operators up to equations of motions and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-25 Pietro Antonio Grassi , Ondrej Hulik

We introduce a formalism for constructing cohomological field theories (CohFT) out of nonlinear PDEs based on the first author's previous work (arXiv:2202.12425). We apply the formalism to the generalized Seiberg-Witten equations and show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Shuhan Jiang , Jürgen Jost