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Quantization of Chern-Simons Coefficient

Han-Ying Guo, Wan-Yun Zhao

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9803151

Abstract

The relation between the Dirac quantization condition of magnetic charge and the quantization of the Chern-Simons coefficient is obtained. It implies that in a (2+1)-dimensional QED with the Chern-Simons topological mass term and the existence of a magnetic monopole with magnetic charge g, the Chern-Simons coefficient must be also quantized, just as in the non-Abelian case.

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