Gauge symmetries of pure Chern - Simons theories with p -form gauge fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/9/006MaRDI QIDQ4357957zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Máximo Banados, C. Iannuzzo, C-M Viallet, Marc Henneaux

Publication date 28 September 1997

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703061

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theorygauge symmetryinternal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: The gauge symmetries of pure Chern-Simons theories with p-form gauge fields are analyzed. It is shown that the number of independent gauge symmetries depends crucially on the parity of p. The case where p is odd appears to be a direct generalization of the p=1 case and presents the remarkable feature that the timelike diffeomorphisms can be expressed in terms of the spatial diffeomorphisms and the internal gauge symmetries. By constrast, the timelike diffeomorphisms may be an independent gauge symmetry when p is even. This happens when the number of fields and the spacetime dimension fulfills an algebraic condition which is explicitely written.

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