Chern–Simons action

Layer 1 — Physicsin the Gauge Theory subtree

S_CS = (k/4π)∫ tr(A∧dA + (2/3)A∧A∧A); topological in 3D; level k quantized; describes FQH, knot invariants (Witten 1989).

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