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Gauged sigma models from 2 + 1 dimensions and the issue of unitarity

Journal Article · · Modern Physics Letters A; (United States)
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  1. Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A and M Univ., College Station, TX (US)

As a Lagrangian realization of the Goddard-Kent-Olive G/H coset construction, Castellani, D'Auria and Levi recently proposed a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model in which the topological term is a difference of Chern-Simons forms. This paper shows that their Lagrangian is actually an ungauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model plus a gauge field coupled linearly to an H-current, thus describing non-abelian chiral bosons with a linear constraint. The authors carry out the Dirac quantization procedure and show that the Hamiltonian is of the current-current form with indefinite signature, thus signaling instability. The authors also clarify the relationship of this model with that of Moore and Seiberg, which does provide an anomaly-free formulation of the GKO coset construction.

OSTI ID:
5614295
Journal Information:
Modern Physics Letters A; (United States), Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States) Vol. 5:23; ISSN 0217-7323; ISSN MPLAE
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English