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Refined Chern-Simons versus Vogel universality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-09-06 v2

Abstract

We study the relation between the partition function of refined SU(N) and SO(2N) Chern-Simons on the 3-sphere and the universal Chern-Simons partition function in the sense of Mkrtchyan and Veselov. We find a four-parameter generalization of the integral representation of universal Chern-Simons that includes refined SU(N) and SO(2N) Chern-Simons for special values of parameters. The large N expansion of the integral representation of refined SU(N) Chern-Simons explicitly shows the replacement of the virtual Euler characteristic of the moduli space of complex curves with a refined Euler characteristic related to the radius deformed c=1 string free energy.

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@article{arxiv.1304.7873,
  title  = {Refined Chern-Simons versus Vogel universality},
  author = {Daniel Krefl and Albert Schwarz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.7873},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

18 pages; v2: Some clarifications and corrections

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