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Bosonization of the lowest Landau level in arbitrary dimensions: edge and bulk dynamics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We discuss the bosonization of nonrelativistic fermions interacting with non-Abelian gauge fields in the lowest Landau level in the framework of higher dimensional quantum Hall effect. The bosonic action is a one-dimensional matrix action, which can also be written as a noncommutative field theory, invariant under WNW_N transformations. The requirement that the usual gauge transformation should be realized as a WNW_N transformation provides an analog of a Seiberg-Witten map, which allows us to express the action purely in terms of bosonic fields. The semiclassical limit of this, describing the gauge interactions of a higher dimensional, non-Abelian quantum Hall droplet, produces a bulk Chern-Simons type term whose anomaly is exactly cancelled by a boundary term given in terms of a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten action.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605006,
  title  = {Bosonization of the lowest Landau level in arbitrary dimensions: edge and bulk dynamics},
  author = {Dimitra Karabali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605006},
  year   = {2008}
}

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29 pages ; typos corrected, two references added