Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-04-16
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A9 (1994) 1569-1630
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Latex, 64 pages, SU-4240-516 (plus 1 uuencoded compressed tar file with the figures) Figures corrected
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X94000704
Let $B$ and $F=\frac 12F_{\mu \nu}dx^\mu \wedge dx^\nu $ be two forms, $F_{\mu \nu}$ being the field strength of an abelian connection $A$. The topological $BF$ system is given by the integral of $B\wedge F$. With "kinetic energy'' terms added for $B$ and $A$, it generates a mass for $A$ thereby suggesting an alternative to the Higgs mechanism, and also gives the London equations. The $BF$ action, being the large length and time scale limit of this augmented action, is thus of physical interest. In earlier work, it has been studied on spatial manifold $\Sigma $ with boundaries $\partial \Sigma $, and the existence of edge states localised at $\partial \Sigma $ has been established. They are analogous to the conformal family of edge states to be found in a Chern-Simons theory in a disc. Here we introduce charges and vortices (thin flux tubes) as sources in the $BF$ system and show that they acquire an infinite number of spin excitations due to renormalization, just as a charge coupled to a Chern-Simons potential acquires a conformal family of spin excitations. For a vortex, these spins are transverse and attached to each of its points, so that it resembles a ribbon. Vertex operators for the creatin of these sources are constructed and interpreted in terms of a Wilson integral involving $A$ and a similar integral involving $B$. The standard spin-statistics theorem is proved for this sources. A new spin-statistics theorem, showing the equality of the ``interchange'' of two identical vortex loops and $2\pi $ rotation of the transverse spins of a constituent vortex, is established. Aharonov-Bohm interactions of charges and vortices are studied. The existence of topologically nontrivial vortex spins is pointed out and their vertex
Balachandran Aiyalam P.
Teotonio-Sobrinho Paulo
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