Edge modes and corner ambiguities in 3d Chern-Simons theory and gravity
From MaRDI portal
(Redirected from Publication:1676162)
Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)
Abstract: Boundaries in gauge field theories are known to be the locus of a wealth of interesting phenomena, as illustrated for example by the holographic principle or by the AdS/CFT and bulk-boundary correspondences. In particular, it has been acknowledged for quite some time that boundaries can break gauge invariance, and thereby turn gauge degrees of freedom into physical ones. There is however no known systematic way of identifying these degrees of freedom and possible associated boundary observables. Following recent work by Donnelly and Freidel, we show that this can be achieved by extending the covariant Hamiltonian formalism so as to make it gauge-invariant under arbitrary large gauge transformations. This can be done at the expense of extending the phase space by introducing new boundary fields, which in turn determine new boundary symmetries and observables. We present the general framework behind this construction, and find the conditions under which it can be applied to an arbitrary Lagrangian. By studying the examples of Abelian Chern-Simons theory and first order three-dimensional gravity, we then show that the new boundary observables satisfy the known corresponding Kac-Moody affine algebras. This shows that this new extended phase space formulation does indeed properly describe the dynamical boundary degrees of freedom, and gives credit to the results which have been previously derived in the case of diffeomorphism symmetry. We expect that this systematic understanding of the boundary symmetries will play a major role for the quantization of gravity in finite regions.
Recommendations
Cites work
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1702950 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5010694 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1232825 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1944576 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2152324 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 865169 (Why is no real title available?)
- Actions, topological terms and boundaries in first-order gravity: a review
- Aspects of entanglement entropy for gauge theories
- Asymptotic Symmetries in Gravitational Theory
- Boundary WZW, \(G/H\), \(G/G\) and CS theories
- Boundary dynamics and the statistical mechanics of the \((2+1)\)-dimensional black hole
- Boundary-bulk relation in topological orders
- Canonical quantization of the boundary Wess-Zumino-Witten model
- Central charges in the canonical realization of asymptotic symmetries: An example from three dimensional gravity
- Colloquium: area laws for the entanglement entropy
- Covariant theory of asymptotic symmetries, conservation laws and central charges
- Edge states in gravity and black hole physics
- Effective conformal descriptions of black hole entropy
- Entanglement entropy and nonabelian gauge symmetry
- Entanglement entropy of black holes
- Entropy and area
- Exact results for the entanglement entropy and the energy radiated by a quark
- Exactly soluble diffeomorphism invariant theories
- From 3D topological quantum field theories to 4D models with defects
- Fusion basis for lattice gauge theory and loop quantum gravity
- Geometry and physics of null infinity
- Gravitational waves in general relativity VIII. Waves in asymptotically flat space-time
- Gravitational waves in general relativity, VII. Waves from axi-symmetric isolated system
- Gravity and BF theory defined in bounded regions
- Hamiltonian and Noether charges in first order gravity
- Horizon constraints and black-hole entropy
- Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory
- Local phase space and edge modes for diffeomorphism-invariant theories
- Local subsystems in gauge theory and gravity
- Lorentz-diffeomorphism edge modes in 3d gravity
- New symmetries of QED
- Noether's second theorem and Ward identities for gauge symmetries
- On entanglement entropy in non-abelian lattice gauge theory and 3D quantum gravity
- On the boundary dynamics of Chern-Simons gravity
- On the definition of entanglement entropy in lattice gauge theories
- On the entanglement entropy for gauge theories
- Quantum gravity kinematics from extended TQFTs
- Role of surface integrals in the Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity
- Spatial infinity as a boundary of spacetime
- Surface charge algebra in gauge theories and thermodynamic integrability
- Symplectic geometry of the convariant phase space
- The asymptotic dynamics of three-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant
- The dynamics of supertranslations and superrotations in \(2+1\) dimensions
- The holographic principle
- The world as a hologram
- Topological quantum field theories
- Topological structures in string theory
- Tori detect invertibility of topological field theories
- (3+1)-dimensional topological phases and self-dual quantum geometries encoded on Heegaard surfaces
- \(2+1\)-dimensional gravity as an exactly soluble system
Cited in
(50)- Homological perspective on edge modes in linear Yang-Mills and Chern-Simons theory
- Three-dimensional de Sitter horizon thermodynamics
- Carrollian hydrodynamics and symplectic structure on stretched horizons
- Edge modes and dressing fields for the Newton-Cartan quantum Hall effect
- On the covariant formulation of gauge theories with boundaries
- Conformal boundary conditions, loop gravity and the continuum
- Edge modes and surface-preserving symmetries in Einstein-Maxwell theory
- Local phase space and edge modes for diffeomorphism-invariant theories
- Lorentz-diffeomorphism edge modes in 3d gravity
- A note on entanglement edge modes in Chern Simons theory
- The dressing field method for diffeomorphisms: a relational framework
- Shallow water memory: Stokes and Darwin drifts
- Strolling along gauge theory vacua
- Quantum gravity in three dimensions, Witten spinors and the quantisation of length
- The quantum gravity disk: discrete current algebra
- Gravity edges modes and Hayward term
- Boundary theories for dilaton supergravity in 2D
- Extended actions, dynamics of edge modes, and entanglement entropy
- A unified geometric framework for boundary charges and dressings: non-abelian theory and matter
- Edge modes as reference frames and boundary actions from post-selection
- Quantum corrections to finite radius holography and holographic entanglement entropy
- The \(\Lambda- \mathrm{BMS}_4\) charge algebra
- On the charge algebra of causal diamonds in three dimensional gravity
- Edge modes as dynamical frames: charges from post-selection in generally covariant theories
- A remarkably simple theory of 3d massive gravity
- Surface charges for gravity and electromagnetism in the first order formalism
- Extended phase space in general gauge theories
- Simplicial graviton from selfdual Ashtekar variables
- Gravity and BF theory defined in bounded regions
- Towards holography in the BV-BFV setting
- Edge modes of gravity. I: Corner potentials and charges
- Edge modes of gravity. II: Corner metric and Lorentz charges
- Gravitational edge modes: from Kac–Moody charges to Poincaré networks
- Null Raychaudhuri: canonical structure and the dressing time
- Dynamical edge modes and entanglement in Maxwell theory
- A note on the Hamiltonian structure of transgression forms
- Systematics of boundary actions in gauge theory and gravity
- The classical dynamics of gauge theories in the deep infrared
- Brown-York charges with mixed boundary conditions
- Edge dynamics from the path integral -- Maxwell and Yang-Mills
- Symmetries and charges of general relativity at null boundaries
- Fock representation of gravitational boundary modes and the discreteness of the area spectrum
- Edge state quantization: vector fields in Rindler
- Note on the bundle geometry of field space, variational connections, the dressing field method, \& presymplectic structures of gauge theories over bounded regions
- Brown-York charges at null boundaries
- Renormalization of spin-one asymptotic charges in \(\mathrm{AdS}_D\)
- Crossed products, extended phase spaces and the resolution of entanglement singularities
- Soft charges and electric-magnetic duality
- Bundle geometry of the connection space, covariant Hamiltonian formalism, the problem of boundaries in gauge theories, and the dressing field method
- A proposal for 3d quantum gravity and its bulk factorization
This page was built for publication: Edge modes and corner ambiguities in 3d Chern-Simons theory and gravity
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1676162)
