COHERENT STATE QUANTIZATION OF CHERN-SIMONS THEORY

10 March 1990

journal article
research article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics A

Vol. 05 (05) , 959-988
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x90000453

Abstract

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.

Keywords

GAUGE THEORY
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLE
COHERENT STATES
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
CHERN SIMONS THEORY
THREE DIMENSIONAL
GENERATING FUNCTION
CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY
CHERN SIMONS
QUANTUM MECHANICS
CURRENT ALGEBRA
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE

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