Consistent Chiral Bosonization With Abelian and Nonabelian Gauge Symmetries
Apr, 198926 pages
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- Nucl.Phys.B 326 (1989) 307-332
- Published: 1989
Report number:
- UCLA-89-TEP-17,
- FSU-SCRI-89-46,
- LNF-89-014-PT
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
An O( N ) non-abelian generalization of Siegel's action for chiral bosons coupled to gauge fields is presented. We show that the only consistent gauging of the O( N ) symmetry corresponds to that of N free Majorana-Weyl fermions. The equivalence between the quantized O( N ) chiral model without gauge fields and the free fermion theory is then established. The theory is treated as a constrained hamiltonian system in which zero-modes are carefully taken into account. Specializing to the gauged abelian case, the solution to the chiral Schwinger model is discussed in the framework of chiral bosonization.- FIELD THEORY: SCALAR
- BOSON: CHIRAL
- FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: WESS-ZUMINO-WITTEN
- FIELD THEORY: TWO-DIMENSIONAL
- SYMMETRY: O(N)
- FERMION: FIELD THEORY
- FIELD THEORY: BOSONIZATION
- QUANTIZATION: HAMILTONIAN FORMALISM
- GAUGE FIELD THEORY
- FIELD THEORETICAL MODEL: SCHWINGER
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