Exact Results for Perturbative Chern-Simons Theory with Complex Gauge Group
Abstract
We develop several methods that allow us to compute all-loop partition functions in perturbative Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group G_C, sometimes in multiple ways. In the background of a non-abelian irreducible flat connection, perturbative G_C invariants turn out to be interesting topological invariants, which are very different from finite type (Vassiliev) invariants obtained in a theory with compact gauge group G. We explore various aspects of these invariants and present an example where we compute them explicitly to high loop order. We also introduce a notion of "arithmetic TQFT" and conjecture (with supporting numerical evidence) that SL(2,C) Chern-Simons theory is an example of such a theory.
Additional Information
© 2009 International Press. Received March 18, 2009. We would like to thank D. Auroux, N. Dunfield, S. Garoufalidis, K. Hikami, T. Mrowka, W. Neumann, E. Witten, and C. Zickert for useful discussions and correspondence. Research of SG is supported in part by NSF Grant PHY-0757647 and in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. JL acknowledges support from a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. TD acknowledges support from a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Opinions and conclusions expressed here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of funding agencies.Attached Files
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- PHY-0757647
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Marie Curie Fellowship
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
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