A note on the gauge symmetries of pure Chern-Simons theories with p-form gauge fields

Details A note on the gauge symmetries of pure Chern-Simons theories with p-form gauge fields A note on the gauge symmetries of pure Chern-Simons theories with p-form gauge fields

1997-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703061v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 14 (1997) 2455-2468

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, latex, one eps figure

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/14/9/006

The gauge symmetries of pure Chern-Simons theories with p-form gauge fields are analyzed. It is shown that the number of independent gauge symmetries depends crucially on the parity of p. The case where p is odd appears to be a direct generalization of the p=1 case and presents the remarkable feature that the timelike diffeomorphisms can be expressed in terms of the spatial diffeomorphisms and the internal gauge symmetries. By constrast, the timelike diffeomorphisms may be an independent gauge symmetry when p is even. This happens when the number of fields and the spacetime dimension fulfills an algebraic condition which is explicitely written.

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