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Roman Wladimir Jackiw

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On Jackiw’s work on Chern-Simons theory:

• Robert D. Pisarski, Roman Jackiw and Chern-Simons theories (arXiv:2103.15868)

Selected writings

Introducing Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory:

• Stanley Deser, Roman Jackiw, S. Templeton: Three-Dimensional Massive Gauge Theories, Phys. Rev. Lett. 48 (1982) 975 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.975]

• Stanley Deser, Roman Jackiw S. Templeton: Topologically massive gauge theories Annals of Physics 140 2 (1982) 372-411 [doi:10.1016/0003-4916(82)90164-6]

Early discussion of the failure of the Jacobi identity for the would-be Poisson bracket of an electron in the background of magnetic monopole density (cf. there)

• Roman Jackiw: Three-Cocycle in Mathematics and Physics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 159 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.159]

Introducing what came to be called Floreanini-Jackiw theory for chiral bosons:

• Roberto Floreanini, Roman Jackiw: Self-dual fields as charge-density solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (1987) 1873 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.1873]

On 3d gravity as a Chern-Simons theory and its holographic relation to a 2d CFT boundary field theory (well before AdS/CFT was conceived from string theory):

• Stanley Deser, Roman Jackiw, Gerard 't Hooft, Three-dimensional Einstein gravity: Dynamics of flat space, Ann. Phys. 152 (1984) 220 (doi:10.1016/0003-4916(84)90085-X)

• Stanley Deser, Roman Jackiw, Three-dimensional cosmological gravity: Dynamics of constant curvature, Annals of Physics, Volume 153, Issue 2, 1 April 1984, Pages 405-416 (doi:10.1016/0003-4916(84)90025-3, spire:192694)

• Roman Jackiw, Lower dimensional gravity, Nuclear Physics B Volume 252, 1985, Pages 343-356 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90448-1, spire:204694)

On Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity:

• Roman Jackiw, Lower dimensional gravity, Nuclear Physics B 252 (1985) 343–356 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90448-1]

On nonperturbative and topological (homotopical) aspects of gauge theories (solitons, large gauge transformations, …)

• Roman Jackiw: Nonperturbative and Topological Aspects of Gauge Theories, Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics (2006) 568–578 [doi:10.1016/B0-12-512666-2/00304-7, arXiv:hep-th/0501178]

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