Existence of local degrees of freedom for higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories

The canonical structure of higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories is analyzed. It is shown that these theories have generically a nonvanishing number of local degrees of freedom, even though they are obtained by means of a topological construction. This number of local degrees of freedom is c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Banados, M., Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier, Henneaux, M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1996
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59555
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59555
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:51-73
Black-hole
Supergravity
Gravity
Física-Modelos matemáticos
Física matemática
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Sumario:The canonical structure of higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories is analyzed. It is shown that these theories have generically a nonvanishing number of local degrees of freedom, even though they are obtained by means of a topological construction. This number of local degrees of freedom is computed as a function of the spacetime dimension and the dimension of the gauge group.