2019/12/31 by Paul K. Townsend
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.101604
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101604 (2020) · 5 pp. Further minor corrections to V3 in V5
arxiv created 2020/03/06 · arxiv updated 2020/03/18
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.