THE LIGHT-CONE GAUGE, CHERN-SIMONS THEORY AND TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE YANG-MILLS THEORY

In this paper, we complete our study of one-loop perturbative Chern-Si mons theory in the light-cone gauge n . A(a) = 0, n2 = 0. Using a gaug e-invariant regularization procedure, which defines Chern-Simons theor y as the large-mass limit of a topotogically massive field theory, we evaluate the three-point function GAMMA(munuomega)abc(p1, p2, p3) to o ne loop. The spurious poles of (q . n)-1 in the gauge propagator are t reated with the n(mu)-prescription. It is shown that the vertex funct ion, which contains both local and nonlocal terms, is UV finite, respe cts the Ward identity and agrees with the one-loop effective action pr oposed in the preceding paper.