scholarly journals Topological strings, two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory and Chern-Simons theory on torus bundles

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 981-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Caporaso ◽  
Michele Cirafici ◽  
Luca Griguolo ◽  
Sara Pasquetti ◽  
Domenico Seminara ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suting Zhao ◽  
Christian Northe ◽  
René Meyer

Abstract We consider symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy in AdS3/CFT2 coupled to U(1) Chern-Simons theory. We identify the holographic dual of the charged moments in the two-dimensional conformal field theory as a charged Wilson line in the bulk of AdS3, namely the Ryu-Takayanagi geodesic minimally coupled to the U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field. We identify the holonomy around the Wilson line as the Aharonov-Bohm phases which, in the two-dimensional field theory, are generated by charged U(1) vertex operators inserted at the endpoints of the entangling interval. Furthermore, we devise a new method to calculate the symmetry resolved entanglement entropy by relating the generating function for the charged moments to the amount of charge in the entangling subregion. We calculate the subregion charge from the U(1) Chern-Simons gauge field sourced by the bulk Wilson line. We use our method to derive the symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy for Poincaré patch and global AdS3, as well as for the conical defect geometries. In all three cases, the symmetry resolved entanglement entropy is determined by the length of the Ryu-Takayanagi geodesic and the Chern-Simons level k, and fulfills equipartition of entanglement. The asymptotic symmetry algebra of the bulk theory is of $$ \hat{\mathfrak{u}}{(1)}_k $$ u ̂ 1 k Kac-Moody type. Employing the $$ \hat{\mathfrak{u}}{(1)}_k $$ u ̂ 1 k Kac-Moody symmetry, we confirm our holographic results by a calculation in the dual conformal field theory.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 344-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeong-Chuan Kao ◽  
Hsiang-Nan Li

We show that the two-loop contribution to the coefficient of the Chern–Simons term in the effective action of the Yang–Mills–Chern–Simons theory is infrared finite in the background field Landau gauge. We also discuss the difficulties in verifying the conjecture, due to topological considerations, that there are no more quantum corrections to the Chern–Simons term other than the well-known one-loop shift of the coefficient.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (07) ◽  
pp. 1309-1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTON M. ZEITLIN

We show explicitly how Batalin–Vilkovisky Yang–Mills action emerges as a homotopy generalization of Chern–Simons theory from the algebraic constructions arising from string field theory.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Maloney ◽  
Edward Witten

Abstract Recent developments involving JT gravity in two dimensions indicate that under some conditions, a gravitational path integral is dual to an average over an ensemble of boundary theories, rather than to a specific boundary theory. For an example in one dimension more, one would like to compare a random ensemble of two-dimensional CFT’s to Einstein gravity in three dimensions. But this is difficult. For a simpler problem, here we average over Narain’s family of two-dimensional CFT’s obtained by toroidal compactification. These theories are believed to be the most general ones with their central charges and abelian current algebra symmetries, so averaging over them means picking a random CFT with those properties. The average can be computed using the Siegel-Weil formula of number theory and has some properties suggestive of a bulk dual theory that would be an exotic theory of gravity in three dimensions. The bulk dual theory would be more like U(1)2D Chern-Simons theory than like Einstein gravity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Santilli ◽  
Richard J. Szabo ◽  
Miguel Tierz

Abstract We derive the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ -perturbed version of two-dimensional q-deformed Yang-Mills theory on an arbitrary Riemann surface by coupling the unperturbed theory in the first order formalism to Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We show that the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ -deformation results in a breakdown of the connection with a Chern-Simons theory on a Seifert manifold, and of the large N factorization into chiral and anti-chiral sectors. For the U(N) gauge theory on the sphere, we show that the large N phase transition persists, and that it is of third order and induced by instantons. The effect of the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ -deformation is to decrease the critical value of the ’t Hooft coupling, and also to extend the class of line bundles for which the phase transition occurs. The same results are shown to hold for (q, t)-deformed Yang-Mills theory. We also explicitly evaluate the entanglement entropy in the large N limit of Yang-Mills theory, showing that the $$ T\overline{T} $$ T T ¯ -deformation decreases the contribution of the Boltzmann entropy.


1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (14) ◽  
pp. 7519-7525 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Kapusta ◽  
M. E. Carrington ◽  
B. Bayman ◽  
D. Seibert ◽  
C. S. Song

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.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document