Uses of Chern-Simons actions
arXiv:0805.1778 · doi:10.1063/1.2971999
Abstract
The role of Chern-Simons (CS) actions is reviewed, starting from the observation that all classical actions in Hamiltonian form can be viewed as 0+1 CS systems, in the same class with the coupling between the electromagnetic field and a point charge. Some suggestions are derived that could shed some light on the quantization problem in D=2n-1>3 dimensions.
17 pages, no figures. Ten Years of AdS/CFT conference, a workshop to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Maldacena Conjecture. Buenos Aires, December 2007. Added references, corrected typos
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