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Manifestly Lorentz Invariant Chiral Boson Action.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Townsend, Paul K 

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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Keywords

5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 4902 Mathematical Physics, 49 Mathematical Sciences, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

Phys Rev Lett

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Journal ISSN

0031-9007
1079-7114

Volume Title

124

Publisher

American Physical Society (APS)

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Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000681/1)
STFC (ST/T000694/1)
STFC consolidated grant ST/P000681/1