Topological closed-string interpretation of Chern-Simons theory

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.71.1295MaRDI QIDQ4492135zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vipul Periwal

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9305115

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: The exact free energy of SU($N$) Chern-Simons theory at level $k$ is expanded in powers of $(N+k{)}^{-2}.$ This expansion keeps rank-level duality manifest, and simplifies as $k$ becomes large, keeping $N$ fixed (or vice versa)---this is the weak-coupling (strong-coupling) limit. With the standard normalization, the free energy on the three-sphere in this limit is shown to be the generating function of the Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces of surfaces of genus $g,$ providing a string interpretation for the perturbative expansion. A similar expansion is found for the three-torus, with differences that shed light on contributions from different spacetime topologies in string theory.

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