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arxiv: hep-th/9308127 · v1 · submitted 1993-08-26 · ✦ hep-th

Twisting to Abelian BF/Chern-Simons Theories

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keywords theorychern-simonsabelianactionfixedgaugesupersymmetrictheories
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Starting from a $D=3$, $N=4$ supersymmetric theory for matter fields, a twist with a Grassmann parity change is defined which maps the theory into a gauge fixed, abelian $BF$ theory on curved 3-manifolds. After adding surface terms to this theory, the twist is seen to map the resulting supersymmetric action to two uncoupled copies of the gauge fixed Chern-Simons action. In addition, we give a map which takes the $BF$ and Chern-Simons theories into Donaldson-Witten TQFT's. A similar construction, but with $N=2$ supersymmetry, is given in two dimensions.

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