DIMENSIONAL REGULARIZATION OF CHERN-SIMONS FIELD-THEORY

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作者
MARTIN, CP
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[1] Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, Silver Street
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)91862-6
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We discuss the dimensional regularisation program as applied to a pure Chern-Simons theory in Minkowski space. In order to make this regularisation program feasible, we propose adding a Yang-Mills term to the pure Chern-Simons action. It is argued that the pure Chern-Simons theory is recovered in a certain limit. Explicit computations are carried out at the one-loop level in the background field gauge. © 1990.
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页码:513 / 521
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