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Chiral bosonization for non-commutative fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

A model of chiral bosons on a non-commutative field space is constructed and new generalized bosonization (fermionization) rules for these fields are given. The conformal structure of the theory is characterized by a level of the Kac-Moody algebra equal to (1+θ2)(1+ \theta^2) where θ\theta is the non-commutativity parameter and chiral bosons living in a non-commutative fields space are described by a rational conformal field theory with the central charge of the Virasoro algebra equal to 1. The non-commutative chiral bosons are shown to correspond to a free fermion moving with a speed equal to c=c1+θ2 c^{\prime} = c \sqrt{1+\theta^2} where cc is the speed of light. Lorentz invariance remains intact if cc is rescaled by ccc \to c^{\prime}. The dispersion relation for bosons and fermions, in this case, is given by ω=ck\omega = c^{\prime} | k|.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402001,
  title  = {Chiral bosonization for non-commutative fields},
  author = {Ashok Das and Jorge Gamboa and Fernando Méndez and Justo López-Sarrión},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402001},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages, JHEP style, version published in JHEP