scholarly journals Asymptotic symmetries of Maxwell Chern–Simons gravity with torsion

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Adami ◽  
P. Concha ◽  
E. Rodríguez ◽  
H. R. Safari

AbstractWe present a three-dimensional Chern–Simons gravity based on a deformation of the Maxwell algebra. This symmetry allows introduction of a non-vanishing torsion to the Maxwell Chern–Simons theory, whose action recovers the Mielke–Baekler model for particular values of the coupling constants. By considering suitable boundary conditions, we show that the asymptotic symmetry is given by the $$\widehat{{\mathfrak {bms}}}_3\oplus {\mathfrak {vir}}$$ bms ^ 3 ⊕ vir algebra with three independent central charges.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Pérez ◽  
Ricardo Troncoso

Abstract It has been recently argued that the averaging of free CFT’s over the Narain lattice can be holographically described through a Chern-Simons theory for U (1)D×U (1)D with a precise prescription to sum over three-dimensional handlebodies. We show that a gravitational dual of these averaged CFT’s would be provided by Einstein gravity on AdS3 with U (1)D−1× U (1)D−1 gauge fields, endowed with a precise set of boundary conditions closely related to the “soft hairy” ones. Gravitational excitations then go along diagonal SL (2, ℝ) generators, so that the asymptotic symmetries are spanned by U (1)D× U (1)D currents. The stress-energy tensor can then be geometrically seen as composite of these currents through a twisted Sugawara construction. Our boundary conditions are such that for the reduced phase space, there is a one-to-one map between the configurations in the gravitational and the purely abelian theories. The partition function in the bulk could then also be performed either from a non-abelian Chern-Simons theory for two copies of SL (2, ℝ) × U (1)D−1 generators, or formally through a path integral along the family of allowed configurations for the metric. The new boundary conditions naturally accommodate BTZ black holes, and the microscopic number of states then appears to be manifestly positive and suitably accounted for from the partition function in the bulk. The inclusion of higher spin currents through an extended twisted Sugawara construction in the context of higher spin gravity is also briefly addressed.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (26) ◽  
pp. 4647-4660
Author(s):  
GOR SARKISSIAN

In this paper we perform canonical quantization of the product of the gauged WZW models on a strip with boundary conditions specified by permutation branes. We show that the phase space of the N-fold product of the gauged WZW model G/H on a strip with boundary conditions given by permutation branes is symplectomorphic to the phase space of the double Chern–Simons theory on a sphere with N holes times the time-line with G and H gauge fields both coupled to two Wilson lines. For the special case of the topological coset G/G we arrive at the conclusion that the phase space of the N-fold product of the topological coset G/G on a strip with boundary conditions given by permutation branes is symplectomorphic to the phase space of Chern–Simons theory on a Riemann surface of the genus N-1 times the time-line with four Wilson lines.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 1689-1697
Author(s):  
JOSÉ D. EDELSTEIN

We embed the semilocal Chern–Simons–Higgs theory into an N=2 supersymmetric system. We construct the corresponding conserved supercharges and derive the Bogomol'nyi equations of the model from supersymmetry considerations. We shown that these equations hold provided certain conditions on the coupling constants as well as on the Higgs potential of the system, which are a consequence of the huge symmetry of the theory, are satisfied. They admit string-like solutions which break one half of the supersymmetries — BPS Chern–Simons semilocal cosmic strings — whose magnetic flux is concentrated at the center of the vortex. We study such solutions and show that their stability is provided by supersymmetry through the existence of a lower bound for the energy, even though the manifold of the Higgs vacuum does not contain non-contractible loops.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 4451-4468 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOLANGE-ODILE SALIU

All consistent interactions in a three-dimensional theory with tensor gauge fields of degrees two and three are obtained by means of the deformation of the solution to the master equation combined with cohomological techniques. The local BRST cohomology of this model allows the deformation of the Lagrangian action, accompanying gauge symmetries and gauge algebra. The relationship with the Chern–Simons theory is discussed.


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (32) ◽  
pp. 2747-2751 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. BRODA

A genuinely three-dimensional covariant approach to the monodromy operator (skein relations) in the context of Chern-Simons theory is proposed. A holomorphic path-integral representation for the holonomy operator (Wilson loop) and for the non-abelian Stokes theorem is used.


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 301-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. C. McKeon

We investigate a three-dimensional gauge theory modeled on Chern–Simons theory. The Lagrangian is most compactly written in terms of a two-index tensor that can be decomposed into fields with spins zero, one, and two. These all mix under the gauge transformation. The background-field method of quantization is used in conjunction with operator regularization to compute the real part of the two-point function for the scalar field.


1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 511-525
Author(s):  
J. L. LÓPEZ

The universality of radiative corrections to the gauge coupling constant k of the Chern–Simons theory is studied in a very general regularization scheme in the background gauge formalism. The effective constant k eff induced by radiative corrections can be any real number depending on the balance between the ultraviolet behavior of scalar and pseudoscalar terms in the regularized action. This ambiguity of the effective action is related to the ambiguity in the parity anomaly of three-dimensional Dirac fermions. The effective action also contains a non-analytic term in the gauge field with the same coefficient and opposite gauge transformation in such a way that the effective action is gauge-invariant. The results open the possibility of a connection with non-rational two-dimensional conformal theories for non-integer values of k eff .


1990 ◽  
Vol 05 (05) ◽  
pp. 959-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHIEL BOS ◽  
V.P. NAIR

Three-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theories are quantized in a functional coherent state formalism. The connection with two-dimensional conformal field theory is found to emerge naturally. The normalized wave functionals are identified as generating functionals for the chiral blocks of two-dimensional current algebra.


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