%0 Journal Article
%A Banados, M.
%A Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier
%A Henneaux, M.
%T Existence of local degrees of freedom for higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories
%D 1996
%@ 0556-2821
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59555
%X The canonical structure of higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories is analyzed. It is shown that these theories have generically a nonvanishing number of local degrees of freedom, even though they are obtained by means of a topological construction. This number of local degrees of freedom is computed as a function of the spacetime dimension and the dimension of the gauge group.
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