CHERN–SIMONS THEORIES WITH SUPERSYMMETRIES IN THREE DIMENSIONS
We study various Chern–Simons (CS) theories in three dimensions with extended super-symmetries. Starting with remarks on nonsupersymmetric cases, we give (i) N = 2 non-Abelian CS theories, (ii) N = 4 non-Abelian CS theory, (iii) conformal supergravity CS theories for general N ≥ 2 up to N = ∞, (iv) CS action in terms of composite gauge fields, based on the N = 1 supersymmetric SO (n + 1)/ SO (n) σ model, (v) relationship of CS theories with higher-dimensional supersymmetric theories, especially with ten-dimensional heterotic string theory, (vi) a prototype model yielding the N = 2 CS theories, (vii) N = 8M and N = 8M − 2 extended supersymmetric Abelian CS theories, and (viii) CS theories for graded Lie groups. Some remarks on anyon models and supersymmetric Jones polynomials are also given.