Gauging of chiral bosonized actions

Y. Frishman*, J. Sonnenschein

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Abstract

We present bosonic actions which are equivalent to various chiral fermion theories. For the case of one chiral fermion coupled to an abelian gauge field, we present two bosonized actions, one corresponding to regularizing in the vector conserving scheme and the other in the left-right scheme. We then propose an action for the non-abelian bosonization of Weyl fermions which is a WZW action coupled to a fixed curved background. The chiral WZW action is then coupled to non-abelian gauge fields. We derive the anomalies of the axial current (in the vector conserving scheme) and the left-right currents (in the left-right regularization scheme), both for the abelian and non-abelian bosonized actions. The expressions for the anomalies are identical to those derived in the corresponding fermionic theories.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)346-356
Number of pages11
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume301
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 May 1988
Externally publishedYes

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