Critical dimensions for chiral bosons
- 15 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 37 (10) , 3067-3069
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.37.3067
Abstract
We give the Lagrangian formulation of a Bose model in 1+1 dimensions which describes a free chiral Lie-algebra-valued current. This model is a non-Abelian generalization of the chiral scalar model of Siegel. Both the Abelian and non-Abelian actions have a gauge invariance, which becomes anomalous when the models are quantized. The condition that this anomaly be canceled coincides with the string no-ghost condition.Keywords
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