A note on the Faddeev-Popov determinant and Chern-Simons perturbation theory

DOI10.1023/A:1007442121759zbMath0884.53055arXivhep-th/9704159MaRDI QIDQ1373292

David H. Adams

Publication date: 19 March 1998

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9704159

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theory; partition function; 3-manifolds; gauge theory; Chern-Simons gauge theory; Faddeev-Popov determinant; reducible gauge field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

53C07: Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills)

58J52: Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion

58D20: Measures (Gaussian, cylindrical, etc.) on manifolds of maps

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