Abelian Chern-Simons theory as the strong large-mass limit of topologically massive abelian gauge theory: the Wilson loop

Abstract

We show that the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop for topologically massive abelian gauge theory in $\RR^3$ can be defined so that its large-mass limit be the renormalized vacuum expectation value of the Wilson loop for abelian Chern-Simons theory also in $\RR^3$.

phyzzx, 17 pages, FTUAM 93/27, UPRF 93/376 and NIKHEF-H 93/17 (to appear in Nucl. Phys. B)

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• Chern-Simons Theory as the Large Mass Limit of Topologically Massive Yang-Mills Theory

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