Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1991-10-20
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
36 pages. Invited talk at the XXth Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Physics, New York, June 1991
Scientific paper
We study the perturbation theory for three dimensional Chern--Simons quantum field theory on a general compact three manifold without boundary. We show that after a simple change of variables, the action obtained by BRS gauge fixing in the Lorentz gauge has a superspace formulation. The basic properties of the propagator and the Feynman rules are written in a precise manner in the language of differential forms. Using the explicit description of the propagator singularities, we prove that the theory is finite. Finally the anomalous metric dependence of the $2$-loop partition function on the Riemannian metric (which was introduced to define the gauge fixing) can be cancelled by a local counterterm as in the $1$-loop case. In fact, the counterterm is equal to the Chern--Simons action of the metric connection, normalized precisely as one would expect based on the framing dependence of Witten's exact solution.
Axelrod Scott
Singer I. M.
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