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We study contact terms of conserved currents and the energy-momentum tensor in three-dimensional quantum field theory. They are associated with Chern-Simons terms for background fields. While the integer parts of these contact terms are ambiguous, their fractional parts are meaningful physical observables. In \( \mathcal{N} = {2} \) supersymmetric theories with a U(1) R symmetry some of these observables lead to an anomaly. Moreover, they can be computed exactly using localization, leading to new tests of dualities.
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Closset, C., Dumitrescu, T.T., Festuccia, G. et al. Comments on Chern-Simons contact terms in three dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 91 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2012)091
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