Kac-Moody and Virasoro characters from the perturbative Chern-Simons path integral

Abstract We evaluate to one loop the functional integral that computes the partition functions of Chern-Simons theories based on compact groups, using the background field method and a covariant gauge fixing. We compare our computation with the results of other, less direct methods. We find that our...

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Main Authors: Massimo Porrati, Cedric Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-05-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)083