EXISTENCE OF LOCAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PURE CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES

Authors
BANADOS M GARAY LJ HENNEAUX M
Citation
M. Banados et al., EXISTENCE OF LOCAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PURE CHERN-SIMONS THEORIES, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 53(2), 1996, pp. 593-596
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Physical review. D. Particles and fields → ACNP
ISSN journal
05562821
Volume
53
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
593 - 596
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(1996)53:2<593:EOLDOF>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The canonical structure of higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theori es is analyzed. It is shown that these theories have generically a non vanishing number of local degrees of freedom, even though they are obt ained by means of a topological construction. This number of local deg rees of freedom is computed as a function of the spacetime dimension a nd the dimension of the gauge group.