TOWARDS A FIELD-THEORY OF FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL STATES

We present a Chern-Simons theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect in which flux attachment is followed by a transformation that effecti vely attaches the correlation holes. We extract the correlated wave fu nctions, compute the drift and cyclotron currents (due to inhomogeneou s density), exhibit the Read operator and operators that create quasip articles and quasiholes. We show how the bare kinetic energy can get q uenched and replaced by one due to interactions. We find that for nu = 1/2 the low energy theory has neutral quasiparticles and give the eff ective Hamiltonian and constraints.