Chern-Simons terms and the Three Notions of Charge
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In theories with Chern-Simons terms or modified Bianchi identities, it is useful to define three notions of either electric or magnetic charge associated with a given gauge field. A language for discussing these charges is introduced and the properties of each charge are described. ‘Brane source charge’ is gauge invariant and localized but not conserved or quantized, ‘Maxwell charge’ is gauge invariant and conserved but not localized or quantized, while ‘Page charge’ conserved, localized, and quantized but not gauge invariant. This provides a further perspective on the issue of charge quantization recently raised by Bachas, Douglas, and Schweigert. For the Proceedings of the E.S. Fradkin Memorial Conference.
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