Aspects of Chern-Simons Theory

1999/02/16 by Gerald V. Dunne, Dunne, Gerald V. · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #cond-mat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9902115

76 pages, Latex, 9 figures (epsfig); Les Houches Lectures 1998

arxiv created 1999/02/16 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Lectures at the 1998 Les Houches Summer School: Topological Aspects of Low Dimensional Systems. These lectures contain an introduction to various aspects of Chern-Simons gauge theory: (i) basics of planar field theory, (ii) canonical quantization of Chern-Simons theory, (iii) Chern-Simons vortices, and (iv) radiatively induced Chern-Simons terms.

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