HAMILTONIAN ANALYSIS OF TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE YANG-MILLS THEORY

Jun, 1987
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 37 (1988) 435
Report number:
  • PRINT-87-0586 (TORONTO)

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Abstract: (APS)
The Hamiltonian dynamics of three-dimensional topologically massive Yang-Mills theory is analyzed in both normal and null-plane coordinates using Dirac’s constraint formalism. As expected, the physical degrees of freedom correspond to a single self-interacting massive mode. In null-plane coordinates, we obtain the standard result that the number of canonical degrees of freedom is half the number found using a spacelike initial-value surface.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: THREE-DIMENSIONAL
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: CHERN-SIMONS TERM
  • MASS: TOPOLOGICAL
  • TOPOLOGICAL: MASS
  • FIELD THEORY: HAMILTONIAN FORMALISM