Journal article
Bosonization as duality
Abstract
We show how to systematically derive the rules for bosonization in two dimensions as a particular case of a duality transformation. The duality process amounts to gauging the global symmetry of the original (fermionic) theory, and constraining the corresponding field strength Fμν to vanish. Integration over the Lagrange multiplier, Λ, for this constraint then reproduces the original theory, and integration over the gauge fields generates the …
Authors
Burgess CP; Quevedo F
Journal
Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 421, No. 2, pp. 373–387
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 1994
DOI
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90332-8
ISSN
0550-3213