Massive covariant colour-kinematics in 3D

Abstract

Abstract We explore topologically massive gauge theories using the covariant colour kinematics duality recently introduced in [1]. We show that the massive bi-adjoint scalar field is simply related to topologically massive gauge theory by the duality, and that enacting the same duality on the gauge theory produces topologically massive gravity coupled to a scalar or, equivalently, an antisymmetric field. We also show that different choices for the replacement of the colour structure constants with kinematic structure constants lead to different theories, including a topologically massive generalisation of Born-Infeld theory.