The Eta Function in Chern-Simons Field Theory

Birmingham, Danny and Kantowski, Ronald and Rakowski, Mark (1990) The Eta Function in Chern-Simons Field Theory. (Preprint)

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Abstract

We discuss a Schwinger expansion technique for computing the η-function of a first order operator in the pure Chern-Simons quantum field theory. When evaluated at zero, the η-function of this operator gives essentially the one-loop correction to the partition function. We illustrate this technique by explicitly computing the one-loop 2-point function in this theory on a fiat spacetime background.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	School of Theoretical Physics > Preprints
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2018 14:15
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2022 15:28
URI:	https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/767

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