Abelian Chern–Simons theory. I. A topological quantum field theory
Abelian Chern–Simons theory. I. A topological quantum field theory
We give a construction of the Abelian Chern–Simons gauge theory from the point of view of a 2+1-dimensional topological quantum field theory. The definition of the quantum theory relies on geometric quantization ideas that have been previously explored in connection to the non-Abelian Chern–Simons theory [J. Diff. Geom. 33, 787–902 …