nLab analytically continued Chern-Simons theory

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Context

\infty-Chern-Simons theory

∞-Chern-Weil theory

∞-Chern-Simons theory

∞-Wess-Zumino-Witten theory

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Quantum field theory

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Idea

Where ordinary 3d Chern-Simons theory is given by an action functional with values in the circle group /\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} on a space of special unitary group-principal connections, its “analytic continuation”(Gukov 03, Witten 10) instead is defined on complex special linear group-principal connections and its values are elements in /\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Z} (see also at Chern-Simons theory with complex gauge group).

The Wilson line quantum observables of analytically continued Chern-Simons theory are accordingly analytic continuations of knot invariants (Garoufalidis 07).

Properties

Discussion of the phase space with its complex symplectic form is in Gukov 03, section 2.2

References

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