The coupling of Chern-Simons theory to topological gravity

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.09.022zbMATH Open1196.81176arXiv0905.4631OpenAlexW1967228425MaRDI QIDQ1960182FDOQ1960182

Authors: C. Imbimbo 

Publication date: 12 October 2010

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We couple Chern-Simons gauge theory to 3-dimensional topological gravity with the aim of investigating its quantum topological invariance. We derive the relevant BRST rules and Batalin-Vilkovisky action. Standard BRST transformations of the gauge field are modified by terms involving both its anti-field and the super-ghost of topological gravity. Beyond the obvious couplings to the metric and the gravitino, the BV action includes hitherto neglected couplings to the super-ghost. We use this result to determine the topological anomalies of certain higher ghost deformations of SU(N) Chern-Simons theory, introduced years ago by Witten. In the context of topological strings these anomalies, which generalize the familiar framing anomaly, are expected to be cancelled by couplings of the closed string sector. We show that such couplings are obtained by dressing the closed string field with topological gravity observables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4631

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zbMATH Keywords

topological gravityChern-Simons gauge theoryBatalin-Vilkovisky quantizationtopological anomalies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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