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A remark on the gauging of chiral bosons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We study the interacting chiral boson and observe that a naive gauging procedure leaves the covariant chiral constraint incompatible with the field equations. Consistency, therefore, rules out most gauging schemes: in a left chiral scalar, only the coupling with the left chiral currents leads to consistent results, in discordance with current literature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9511183,
  title  = {A remark on the gauging of chiral bosons},
  author = {Clovis Wotzasek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9511183},
  year   = {2008}
}

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LATEX file, severely revised version, LATEX, 18 pages