Interference phenomena, chiral bosons and Lorentz invariance

TL;DR

This paper develops a comprehensive theoretical framework for gauged chiral bosons, exploring Lorentz invariance, gauge couplings, and mass generation through soldering formalism, with applications to known models.

Contribution

It introduces a master action for gauged chiral bosons, unifies different gauge couplings, and applies soldering formalism to analyze Lorentz invariance and mass generation.

Findings

Fixed parameters to ensure Lorentz invariance.

Established conditions for covariance in generalized chiral Schwinger models.

Demonstrated soldering formalism as a mass generation method.

Abstract

We have studied the theory of gauged chiral bosons and proposed a general theory, a master action, that encompasses different kinds of gauge field couplings in chiral bosonized theories with first-class chiral constraints. We have fused opposite chiral aspects of this master action using the soldering formalism and applied the final action to several well known models. The Lorentz rotation permitted us to fix conditions on the parameters of this general theory in order to preserve the relativistic invariance. We also have established some conditions on the arbitrary parameter concerned in a chiral Schwinger model with a generalized constraint, investigating both covariance and Lorentz invariance. The results obtained supplements the one that shows the soldering formalism as a new method of mass generation.