Manifestly Lorentz invariant chiral boson action
High Energy Physics - Theory
2020-03-18 v5 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
A manifestly Lorentz invariant action is found for the Floreanini-Jackiw chiral boson. The method involves a novel chiral reduction of the phase-space action for a string, and can be adapted to describe chiral bosons on the heterotic string worldsheet. A similar manifestly Lorentz invariant action is found for an entire class of conformal chiral 2k-form electrodynamics in (4k+2) dimensions which includes the Floreanini-Jackiw theory as the k=0$ case.
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@article{arxiv.1912.04773,
title = {Manifestly Lorentz invariant chiral boson action},
author = {Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04773},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
5 pp. Further minor corrections to V3 in V5