Localization in abelian Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.1063/1.4790565zbMATH Open1280.81102arXiv1208.1724OpenAlexW3103637806MaRDI QIDQ5396306FDOQ5396306

Authors: B. D. K. McLellan 

Publication date: 5 February 2014

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Chern-Simons theory on a closed contact three-manifold is studied when the Lie group for gauge transformations is compact, connected and abelian. A rigorous definition of an abelian Chern-Simons partition function is derived using the Faddeev-Popov gauge fixing method. A symplectic abelian Chern-Simons partition function is also derived using the technique of non-abelian localization. This physically identifies the symplectic abelian partition function with the abelian Chern-Simons partition function as rigorous topological three-manifold invariants. This study leads to a natural identification of the abelian Reidemeister-Ray-Singer torsion as a specific multiple of the natural unit symplectic volume form on the moduli space of flat abelian connections for the class of Sasakian three-manifolds. The torsion part of the abelian Chern-Simons partition function is computed explicitly in terms of Seifert data for a given Sasakian three-manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1724

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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