Higher Derivative Chern--Simons Extensions

Details Higher Derivative Chern--Simons Extensions Higher Derivative Chern--Simons Extensions

1999-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9901125v2

Phys.Lett.B451:73-76,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

3 typos fixed. 5 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00216-6

We study the higher-derivative extensions of the D=3 Abelian Chern--Simons topological invariant that would appear in a perturbative effective action's momentum expansion. The leading, third-derivative, extension I_ECS turns out to be unique. It remains parity-odd but depends only on the field strength, hence no longer carries large gauge information, nor is it topological because metric dependence accompanies the additional covariant derivatives, whose positions are seen to be fixed by gauge invariance. Viewed as an independent action, I_ECS requires the field strength to obey the wave equation. The more interesting model, adjoining I_ECS to the Maxwell action, describes a pair of excitations. One is massless, the other a massive ghost, as we exhibit both via the propagator and by performing the Hamiltonian decomposition. We also present this model's total stress tensor and energy. Other actions involving I_ECS are also noted.

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