Integrability from Chern-Simons theories
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This thesis details my work exploring connections between integrable systems and Chern-Simons theories. It is divided into two parts. The first concerns the application of 4d Chern-Simons theory to describe integrable models with boundary, while the second concerns relations between holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space, 4d Chern-Simons theory and the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations.
Part one opens with a review of 4d Chern-Simons theory, including a discussion of its connections to both quantum and classical integrable systems. It then turns to the results of this thesis concerning the application of 4d Chern-Simons theory to generate solutions of the boundary Yang-Baxter equation. They include: defining the boundary analogue of a quasi-classical
Part two begins with a review of twistor theory. This is followed by the results of this thesis concerning the connections between holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space, 4d Chern-Simons theory and the anti-self-dual Yang-Mills equations. They include: showing that holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space for a meromorphic measure descends to an integrable theory on 4d spacetime; extending these results to indefinite signatures; identifying 4d Chern-Simons theory as the quotient of a 6d Chern-Simons theory on twistor correspondence space by an appropriate lift of the 2d translation group on spacetime; quotienting holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on twistor space by a 1 dimensional group of translations to obtain a 5d Chern-Simons theory on minitwistor correspondence space describing the Bogomolny equations.
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (1936254)