Chiral Bosonization and Local Lorentz-Invariant Actions for Chiral Bosons
- 20 June 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (25) , 2571-2574
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.2571
Abstract
We formulate a geometrical theory of self-dual scalar fields in two dimensions with a local Lorentzinvariant action. Path-integral quantization is used to derive chiral bosonization by demonstrating equivalence of correlation functions of currents and energy-momentum tensors in our theory with those for Weyl fermions.Keywords
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