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Partition Function of Chiral Boson on 2-Torus from Floreanini-Jackiw Lagrangian

Authors :
Chen, Wei-Ming
Ho, Pei-Ming
Kao, Hsien-chung
Khoo, Fech Scen
Matsuo, Yutaka
Publication Year :
2013

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

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1307.2172
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptu021