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Chiral Decomposition For Non-Abelian Bosons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the non-abelian extension for the splitting of a scalar field into chiral components. Using this procedure we find a non ambiguous way of coupling a non abelian chiral scalar field to gravity. We start with a (non-chiral) WZW model covariantly coupled to a background metric and, after the splitting, arrive at two chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models coupled to gravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9608187,
  title  = {Chiral Decomposition For Non-Abelian Bosons},
  author = {Nelson R. F. Braga and Clovis Wotzasek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9608187},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, LATEX

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