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Perturbative expansion of Chern–Simons theory
Justin Sawon
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Geometry & Topology Monographs 8
(2006) 145–166
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Abstract
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An overview of the perturbative expansion of the Chern–Simons path integral is
given. The main goal is to describe how trivalent graphs appear: as they already
occur in the perturbative expansion of an analogous finite-dimensional integral, we
discuss this case in detail.
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Keywords
Chern–Simons theory, Feynman path
integral, perturbative expansion, trivalent graphs
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Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: 81T18
Secondary: 57M27, 58J28, 81T13
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Publication
Received: 10 December 2004
Revised: 25 April 2005
Accepted: 14 December 2004
Published: 22 April 2006
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