ABELIAN CHERN-SIMONS THEORY AS THE STRONG LARGE-MASS LIMIT OF TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE ABELIAN GAUGE-THEORY - THE WILSON LOOP

Authors
GIAVARINI G MARTIN CP RUIZ FR
Citation
G. Giavarini et al., ABELIAN CHERN-SIMONS THEORY AS THE STRONG LARGE-MASS LIMIT OF TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE ABELIAN GAUGE-THEORY - THE WILSON LOOP, Nuclear physics. B, 412(3), 1994, pp. 731-747
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Volume
412
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
731 - 747
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1994)412:3<731:ACTATS>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
We show that the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the Wilson l oop for topologically massive abelian gauge theory in R3 can be define d so that its large-mass limit is the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop for abelian Chern-Simons theory also in R3.