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New gauge-invariant formulation of the Chern-Simons gauge theory

Mu-In Park and Young-Jai Park
Phys. Rev. D 58, 101702(R) – Published 22 October 1998
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Abstract

A new gauge invariant formulation of the relativistic scalar field interacting with Chern-Simons gauge fields is considered. This formulation is consistent with the gauge fixed formulation. Furthermore, we find that canonical (Noether) Poincaré generators are not gauge invariant even on the constraints surface and do not satisfy the (classical) Poincaré algebra. It is the improved generators, constructed from the symmetric energy-momentum tensor, which are (manifestly) gauge invariant and obey the classical Poincaré algebra.

  • Received 7 April 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.101702

©1998 American Physical Society

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Mu-In Park*

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Young-Jai Park

  • Department of Physics, Sogang University, C.P.O. Box 1142, Seoul 100-611, Korea

  • *Electronic address: mipark@physics.sogang.ac.kr

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Vol. 58, Iss. 10 — 15 November 1998

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