A Note on the Faddeev–Popov Determinant and Chern–Simmons Perturbation Theory

A refined expression for the Faddeev–Popov determinant is derived for gauge theories quantised around a reducible classical solution. We apply this result to Chern–Simons perturbation theory on compact spacetime 3-manifolds with quantisation around an arbitrary flat gauge field isolated up to gauge transformations, pointing out that previous results on the finiteness and formal metric-independence of perturbative expansions of the partition function continue to hold.