Induced Chern-Simons terms

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1998

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McCarthy, Jim
Wilkins, Andy

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Physical Review D, 1998; 58(8):085007

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Jim McCarthy and Andy Wilkins

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We examine the claim that the effective action of four-dimensional SU(2)L gauge theory at high and low temperature contains a three-dimensional Chern-Simons term which has the chemical potential for baryon number as its coefficent. The four-dimensional theory has a two-dimensional analogue in which exact calculations can be performed. These calculations demonstrate that the existence of the Chern-Simons term in four dimensions may be rather subtle.

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School of Chemistry and Physics : Physics and Mathematical Physics

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©1998 American Physical Society

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