Localization for Chern-Simons on circle bundles via loop groups

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2018.06.005zbMATH Open1397.58009arXiv1507.01626OpenAlexW2963821061WikidataQ129631424 ScholiaQ129631424MaRDI QIDQ1664020FDOQ1664020

Ryan Mickler

Publication date: 24 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider Chern-Simons theory on 3-manifold $M$ that is the total space of a circle bundle over a 2d base $Sigma$. We show that this theory is equivalent to a new 2d TQFT on the base, which we call Caloron BF theory, that can be obtained by an appropriate type of push-forward. This is a gauge theory on a bundle with structure group given by the full affine level $k$ central extension of the loop group $LG$. The space of fields of this 2d theory is naturally symplectic, and this provides a new formulation of a result of Beasley-Witten about the equivariant localization of the Chern-Simons path integral. The main tool that we employ is the Caloron correspondence, originally due to Murray-Garland, that relates the space of gauge fields on $M$ with a certain enlarged space of connections on an equivariant version of the loop space of the $G$-bundle. We show that the symplectic structure that Beasley-Witten found is related to a looped version of the Atiyah-Bott construction in 2-dimensional Yang-Mills theory. We also show that Wilson loops that wrap a single circle fiber are also described very naturally in this framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01626

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldChern-Simons theoryCaloron correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28)

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