ON THE COVARIANTIZATION OF THE CHIRAL CONSTRAINT

Preprint

9 February 1995

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9502056

Abstract

We show that a complete covariantization of the chiral constraint in the Floreanini-Jackiw necessitates an infinite number of auxiliary Wess-Zumino fields otherwise the covariantization is only partial and unable to remove the nonlocality in the chiral boson operator. We comment on recent works that claim to obtain covariantization through the use of Batalin-Fradkin-Tyutin method, that uses just one Wess-Zumino field.

Keywords

COMPLETE COVARIANTIZATION
CHIRAL CONSTRAINT
COVARIANTIZATION
ZUMINO FIELD
WESS ZUMINO
NONLOCALITY
CONSTRAINT

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