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Bosonization of $QED_3$ with an induced Chern - Simons term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We extend the bosonization of 2+12+1 - dimensional QED with one fermionic flavor performed previously to the case of QED with an induced Chern - Simons term. The coefficient of this term is quantized: e2n/8πe^2n/8\pi, nZn\in {\bf Z}. The fermion operators are constructed in terms of the bosonic fields AiA_i and EiE_i. The construction is similar to that in the n=0n=0 case. The resulting bosonic theory is Lorentz invariant in the continuum limit and has Maxwell's equations as its equations of motion. The algebra of bilinears exhibits nontrivial operatorial mixing with lower dimensional operators, which is absent for n=0n=0.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9307006,
  title  = {Bosonization of $QED_3$ with an induced Chern - Simons term},
  author = {A. Kovner and P. S. Kurzepa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9307006},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LA-UR-93-2406