GAUGE DEPENDENCE IN CHERN–SIMONS THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X99000233MaRDI QIDQ4244458zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. A. Dilkes, D. G. C. Mckeon, T. N. Sherry, Louise C. Martin

Publication date 11 November 1999

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9606081

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theorygauge dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We compute the contribution to the modulus of the one-loop effective action in pure non-Abelian Chern-Simons theory in an arbitrary covariant gauge. We find that the results are dependent on both the gauge parameter ($alpha$) and the metric required in the gauge fixing. A contribution arises that has not been previously encountered; it is of the form $(alpha/sqrt{p}^2)epsilo{n}_{mulambdau}{p}^{l}ambda$. This is possible as in three dimensions $alpha$ is dimensionful. A variant of proper time regularization is used to render these integrals well behaved (although no divergences occur when the regularization is turned off at the end of the calculation). Since the original Lagrangian is unaltered in this approach, no symmetries of the classical theory are explicitly broken and $epsilo{n}_{mulambdau}$ is handled unambiguously since the system is three dimensional at all stages of the calculation. The results are shown to be consistent with the so-called Nielsen identities which predict the explicit gauge parameter dependence using an extension of BRS symmetry. We demonstrate that this $alpha$ dependence may potentially contribute to the vacuum expectation values of products of Wilson loops.

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