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Anomalies and Holomorphy in Supersymmetric Chern-Simons-Matter Theories
Nathaniel Bade, Chris Beasley
For Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions, gauge invariance may require the Chern-Simons level k to be half-integral, in which case parity is violated. As noted by Pasqu…
Abelian Duality at Higher Genus
Chris Beasley
In three dimensions, a free, periodic scalar field is related by duality to an abelian gauge field. Here I explore aspects of this duality when both theories are quantized on a Rie…
Global Aspects of Abelian Duality in Dimension Three
Chris Beasley
In three dimensions, an abelian gauge field is related by duality to a free, periodic scalar field. Though usually considered on Euclidean space, this duality can be extended to a…
Remarks on Wilson Loops and Seifert Loops in Chern-Simons Theory
Chris Beasley
As noted long ago by Atiyah and Bott, the classical Yang-Mills action on a Riemann surface admits a beautiful symplectic interpretation as the norm-square of a moment map associate…
Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory
Chris Beasley
We reconsider Chern-Simons gauge theory on a Seifert manifold M, which is the total space of a nontrivial circle bundle over a Riemann surface, possibly with orbifold points. As sh…
GUTs and Exceptional Branes in F-theory - II: Experimental Predictions
Chris Beasley, Jonathan J. Heckman, Cumrun Vafa
We consider realizations of GUT models in F-theory. Adopting a bottom up approach, the assumption that the dynamics of the GUT model can in principle decouple from Planck scale phy…