Arithmetic Chern-Simons theory II

Abstract

In this paper, we apply ideas of Dijkgraaf and Witten [6, 32] on 3 dimensional topological quantum field theory to arithmetic curves, that is, the spectra of rings of integers in algebraic number fields. In the first three sections, we define classical Chern–Simons actions on spaces of Galois representations. In the subsequent sections, we give formulas for computation in a small class of cases and point towards some arithmetic applications