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arxiv: hep-th/9403116 · v3 · submitted 1994-03-19 · ✦ hep-th

Renormalization Ambiguities in Chern-Simons Theory

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keywords chern-simonsconstantcorrectionscouplinggaugegenerateinvariantradiative
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We introduce a new family of gauge invariant regularizations of Chern-Simons theories which generate one-loop renormalizations of the coupling constant of the form $k\to k+2 s c_v$ where $s$ can take any arbitrary integer value. In the particular case $s=0$ we get an explicit example of a gauge invariant regularization which does not generate radiative corrections to the bare coupling constant. This ambiguity in the radiative corrections to $k$ is reminiscent of the Coste-L\"uscher results for the parity anomaly in (2+1) fermionic effective actions.

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