Topologically massive Yang-Mills theory and link invariants

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15500347zbMATH Open1310.81138arXiv1311.1853MaRDI QIDQ5249376FDOQ5249376

Authors: Tuna Yildirim 

Publication date: 5 May 2015

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

Abstract: Topologically massive Yang-Mills theory is studied in the framework of geometric quantization. Since this theory has a mass gap proportional to the topological mass m, Yang-Mills contribution decays exponentially at very large distances compared to 1/m, leaving a pure Chern-Simons theory with level number k. In this paper, the near Chern-Simons limit is studied where the distance is large enough to give an almost topological theory, with a small contribution from the Yang-Mills term. It is shown that this almost topological theory consists of two copies of Chern-Simons with level number k/2, very similar to the Chern-Simons splitting of topologically massive AdS gravity. Also, gauge invariance of these half-Chern-Simons theories is discussed. As m approaches to infinity, the split parts add up to give the original Chern-Simons term with level k. Reduction of the phase space is discussed in this limit. Finally, a relation between the observables of topologically massive Yang-Mills theory and Chern-Simons theory is shown. One of the two split Chern-Simons pieces is shown to be associated with Wilson loops while the other with 't Hooft loops. This allows one to use skein relations to calculate topologically massive Yang-Mills theory observables in the near Chern-Simons limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1853

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zbMATH Keywords

Yang-MillsWilson loopChern-Simonslink invariantstopologically massive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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