Chern-Simons Theory, 2d Yang-Mills, and Lie Algebra Wanderers
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We work out the relation between Chern-Simons, 2d Yang-Mills on the cylinder, and Brownian motion. We show that for the unitary, orthogonal and symplectic groups, various observables in Chern-Simons theory on S3 and lens spaces are exactly given by counting the number of paths of a Brownian particle wandering in the fundamental Weyl chamber of the corresponding Lie algebra. We construct a fermionic formulation of Chern-Simons on S3 which allows us to identify the Brownian particles as B-model branes moving on a non-commutative two-sphere, and construct 1and 2-matrix models to compute Brownian motion ensemble averages.
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