Hamiltonian study for Chern-Simons and Pontryagin theories

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2010.09.004zbMath1208.81182arXiv1107.4023MaRDI QIDQ627647

Alberto Escalante, Leopoldo Carbajal

Publication date: 3 March 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4023

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian dynamics; topological theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

22E70: Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations

81T45: Topological field theories in quantum mechanics

81R05: Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations

58J28: Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants

70S05: Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems

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