Topologically massive Yang-Mills theory and link invariants

In this thesis, topologically massive Yang-Mills theory is studied in the framework of geometric quantization. This theory has a mass gap that is proportional to the topological mass m. Thus, Yang-Mills contribution decays exponentially at very large distances compared to 1/m, leaving a pure Chern-S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yildirim, Tuna
Other Authors: Rodgers, Vincent G. J.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2014
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1519
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5526&context=etd