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BFFT formalism applied to the minimal chiral Schwinger model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

We consider the minimal chiral Schwinger model, by embedding the gauge noninvariant formulation into a gauge theory following the Batalin-Fradkin-Fradkina-Tyutin point of view. Within the BFFT procedure, the second class constraints are converted into strongly involutive first-class ones, leading to an extended gauge invariant formulation. We also show that, like the standard chiral model, in the minimal chiral model the Wess-Zumino action can be obtained by performing a q-number gauge transformation into the effective gauge noninvariant action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0010081,
  title  = {BFFT formalism applied to the minimal chiral Schwinger model},
  author = {C. P. Natividade and H. Boschi-Filho and L. V. Belvedere},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0010081},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

11 Latex pages. Revised version: New section and more references included. To appear in MPLA