Homotopical analysis of 4d Chern-Simons theory and integrable field theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04304-7MaRDI QIDQ2113466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel, B. Vicedo

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01829

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Edge subsets with special properties (factorization, matching, partitioning, covering and packing, etc.) (05C70) Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Finite-type conditions for the boundary of a domain (32F18)

Abstract: This paper provides a detailed study of $4$-dimensional Chern-Simons theory on $mathbb{R}^{2}imesmathbbC{P}^1$ for an arbitrary meromorphic $1$-form $omega$ on $mathbbC{P}^1$. Using techniques from homotopy theory, the behaviour under finite gauge transformations of a suitably regularised version of the action proposed by Costello and Yamazaki is investigated. Its gauge invariance is related to boundary conditions on the surface defects located at the poles of $omega$ that are determined by isotropic Lie subalgebras of a certain defect Lie algebra. The groupoid of fields satisfying such a boundary condition is proved to be equivalent to a groupoid that implements the boundary condition through a homotopy pullback, leading to the appearance of edge modes. The latter perspective is used to clarify how integrable field theories arise from $4$-dimensional Chern-Simons theory.

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