Canonical quantization of chiral bosons
- 17 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (16) , 1817-1820
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.1817
Abstract
We perform the canonical quantization for a system of non-Abelian chiral bosons. We show that unlike in the Wess-Zumino-Witten model, the left- and right-handed current densities do not simultaneously span Kac-Moody algebras in the quantum theory. At the critical values of the coupling constants, only one Kac-Moody algebra results.Keywords
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