RT Journal Article T1 Existence of local degrees of freedom for higher dimensional pure Chern-Simons theories A1 Banados, M. A1 Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier A1 Henneaux, M. AB 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. PB Amer Physical Soc SN 0556-2821 YR 1996 FD 1996-01-15 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59555 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59555 LA eng NO © 1996 The American Physical Society.We are grateful to Claudio Teitelboim and Jorge Zanelli for useful conversations. M.B. was partially supported by Grants Nos. 1930910-93 and 1940203-94 from FONDECYT (Chile), a Grant from Fundación Andes (Chile), and by institutional support to the Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago provided by SAREC (Sweden) and a group of Chilean private companies (COPEC,CMPC,ENERSIS). L.J.G. was supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) and the British Council. This work was supported in part by Research Funds from the European Community and by a Research Grant from F.N.R.S. NO FONDECYT (Chile) NO Fundación Andes (Chile) NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) NO Funds from the European Community NO F.N.R.S. NO British Council DS Docta Complutense RD 18 abr 2025