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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030403 (2001) [3 pages]

Level Quantization for the Noncommutative Chern-Simons Theory
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V. P. Nair1,2 * and A. P. Polychronakos1,2,3 †
1Physics Department, City College of the CUNY, New York, New York 10031
2The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, New York 10016
3Physics Department, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021

Received 2 March 2001; published 2 July 2001

We show that the coefficient of the three-dimensional Chern-Simons action on the noncommutative plane must be quantized. Similar considerations apply in other dimensions as well.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v87/e030403
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.030403
PACS: 03.70.+k

* Email address: vpn@ajanta.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
† On leave from Theoretical Physics Department, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden and Physics Department, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.Email address: poly@teorfys.uu.se

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