Self-Dual Chern-Simons Theories

Self-duality reduces the mathematical difficulties of a theory but it is also a notion of physical significance. The class of self-dual Chern-Simons theories discussed in this text arise in the context of anyonic quantum field theory and have applications to models such as the quantum Hall effect, anyonic superconductivity, and Aharonov-Bohm scattering. There are also connections with the theory of integrable models