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Partition Function of Chiral Boson on 2-Torus from Floreanini-Jackiw Lagrangian
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- We revisit the problem of quantizing a chiral boson on a torus. The conventional approach is to extract the partition function of a chiral boson from the path integral of a non-chiral boson. Instead we compute it directly from the chiral boson Lagrangian of Floreanini and Jackiw modified by topological terms involving auxiliary fields. A careful analysis of the gauge-fixing condition for the extra gauge symmetry reproduces the correct results for the free chiral boson, and has the advantage of being applicable to a wider class of interacting chiral boson theories.<br />Comment: 31 pages, minor modification
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Theory
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1307.2172
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptu021