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Chern-Simons term in Coulomb or radiation gauge

Physics Asked by Mr. Gentleman on April 21, 2021

In some of the literature (for example, below Eq. (A3) of this paper), the following is claimed to be the Chern-Simons term in the Coulomb gauge:
begin{equation}
2a_0(partial_1a_2-partial_2a_1)
end{equation}

and it cited this paper, which below its Eq. (5) states that the above term is the Chern-Simons term in radiation gauge.

My questions are:

  1. Is the radiation gauge the same as the Coulomb gauge, where $partial_1a_1+partial_2a_2=0$.

  2. Why is the above term the Chern-Simons in the Coulomb gauge? The standard Chern-Simons term is
    $$epsilon_{munulambda}a_mupartial_nu a_lambda=a_0(partial_1a_2-partial_2a_1)+a_1(partial_2a_0-partial_0a_2)+a_2(partial_0a_1-partial_1a_0)$$
    After integrating by parts it becomes
    $$epsilon_{munulambda}a_mupartial_nu a_lambdarightarrow 2a_0(partial_1a_2-partial_2a_1)+2a_2partial_0a_1$$
    which still differs from $2a_0(partial_1a_2-partial_2a_1)$ by the last term that does not seem to vanish in the Coulomb gauge.

One Answer

  1. Yes.

  2. The question now is to show $$ int d^2xepsilon^{munusigma}a_{mu} partial_{mu}a_{sigma}=int d^2x [2 a_0(partial_1 a_2-partial_2 a_1)+(a_2partial_0 a_1-a_1partial_0 a_2)] =int d^2x 2 a_0(partial_1 a_2-partial_2 a_1) tag{1}. $$ That is, $$ int d^2x (a_2partial_0 a_1-a_1partial_0 a_2)=int d^2x vec{a}times partial_0 vec{a}=0 tag{2}. $$ The Coulomb gauge condition ($nabla cdot vec{a}=0$) in momentum space is $vec{k}cdotvec{a}(vec{k})=0$. Differentiating with respect to time and $krightarrow -k$ gives $vec{k}cdot partial_0 vec{a}(-vec{k})=0.$. These two equations imply that $vec{a}(vec{k})$ and $partial_0 vec{a}(-vec{k})$ are both perpendicular to $vec{k}$, which in turn imply that they are parallel to each other: $$ vec{a}(vec{k}) times partial_0 vec{a}(vec{-k})=0 tag{3}. $$ Now, representing (2) in momentum space gives $$ int d^2x vec{a}times partial_0 vec{a}=int frac{d^2k}{(2pi)^2}vec{a}(vec{k})times partial_0 vec{a}(-vec k)=0,tag{4} $$ and the claim is proved.

Correct answer by Kyung-Su on April 21, 2021

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