Unifying Approaches to Chiral Bosons
| Autor: | Arvanitakis, Alex S., Cole, Lewis T., Hulik, Ondrej, Sevrin, Alexander, Thompson, Daniel C. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.126024 |
| Popis: | Chiral bosons, or self-dual p-form fields, are ubiquitous in string theoretic contexts but are challenging to treat. Lagrangian constructions invariably introduce a complexity be it auxiliary fields or sacrificing Lorentz invariance. In this note we show how to pass between such different approaches to chiral bosons starting from a Chern Simons point of view to recover formulations of Pasti, Sorokin and Tonin and of Mkrtchyan. This leads to a novel generalisation of the latter to include non-Abelian chiral bosons in 2-dimensions, and generalisations to include twisted self-duality which are relevant in T-duality symmetric approaches to string theory. Our approach also shows how global affine symmetries of two- and higher-dimensional chiral bosons emerge from broken Chern-Simons gauge transformations on the boundary. Comment: 23 pages. Minor updates, matches published version |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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