Bosonization as Duality

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21 January 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9401105

Abstract

We show that bosonization in two dimensions can be derived as a special case of the duality transformations that have recently been used to good effect in string theory. This allows the construction of the bosonic counterpart of any fermionic theory simply by `following your nose' using the standard duality transformation rules. We work through the bosonization of the Dirac fermion, the massive and massless Thirring models, and a fermion on a cylindrical spacetime as illustrative examples.

Keywords

DUALITY TRANSFORMATIONS
BOSONIC COUNTERPART
STANDARD DUALITY
TWO DIMENSIONS
DIRAC FERMION
BOSONIZATION
FERMION
THEORY
NOSE

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Version 1, 1994-01-21, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics B, 421 (2), 373.

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