Non-abelian chiral bosons coupled to gauge field

Yaron Oz*

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Abstract

By imposing constraints on the phase space of the bosonic description of N Dirac fermions, chirally coupled to a U(N) gauge field in two dimensions, we construct a natural coupling of non-abelian chiral bosons to a gauge field. Analysing the constraints structure of the theory we show that non-abelian chiral bosons coupled to a gauge field may be viewed as a gauge fixed version of a gauge invariant theory. Using the hamiltonian BRST formalism we quantize the theory and derive a unitarity restriction.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)497-502
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume245
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Aug 1990
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
~sterreichische Nationalbank Jubil~3485

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