Eta-invariants and anomalies in U(l) Chern-Simons theory

zbMATH Open1244.58010arXiv1004.2913MaRDI QIDQ3108673FDOQ3108673

Authors: Lisa C. Jeffrey, Brendan McLellan 

Publication date: 5 January 2012

Abstract: This paper studies U(1)-Chern-Simons theory and its relation to a construction of Chris Beasley and Edward Witten. The natural geometric setup here is that of a three-manifold with a Seifert structure. Based on a suggestion of Edward Witten we are led to study the stationary phase approximation of the path integral for U(1)-Chern-Simons theory after one of the three components of the gauge field is decoupled. This gives an alternative formulation of the partition function for U(1)-Chern-Simons theory that is conjecturally equivalent to the usual U(1)-Chern-Simons theory. The goal of this paper is to establish this conjectural equivalence rigorously through appropriate regularization techniques. This approach leads to some rather surprising results and opens the door to studying hypoelliptic operators and their associated eta invariants in a new light.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2913

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zbMATH Keywords

anomalypartition functioncontact geometryeta-invariantquantum Chern-Simons theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Algebraic properties of function spaces in general topology (54C40)

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• A remark on Schwarz's topological field theory.
• Reidemeister torsion, the Alexander polynomial and \(U(1,1)\) Chern-Simons theory

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