THE CHERN-SIMONS SOURCE AS A CONFORMAL FAMILY AND ITS VERTEX OPERATORS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X92002660zbMATH Open0954.81541arXivhep-th/9201048MaRDI QIDQ4523800FDOQ4523800

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Publication date: 14 January 2001

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

Abstract: In a previous work, a straightforward canonical approach to the source-free quantum Chern-Simons dynamics was developed. It makes use of neither gauge conditions nor functional integrals and needs only ideas known from QCD and quantum gravity. It gives Witten's conformal edge states in a simple way when the spatial slice is a disc. Here we extend the formalism by including sources as well. The quantum states of a source with a fixed spatial location are shown to be those of a conformal family, a result also discovered first by Witten. The internal states of a source are not thus associated with just a single ray of a Hilbert space. Vertex operators for both abelian and nonabelian sources are constructed. The regularized abelian Wilson line is proved to be a vertex operator. We also argue in favor of a similar nonabelian result. The spin-statistics theorem is established for Chern-Simons dynamics even though the sources are not described by relativistic quantum fields. The proof employs geometrical methods which we find are strikingly transparent and pleasing. It is based on the research of European physicists about ``fields localized on cones.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9201048

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

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