Published May 15, 1991
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Journal article
Path-integral bosonization in topologically nontrivial sectors: The non-Abelian case
- 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina (Argentina)
- 2. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CC 67, 1900 La Plata, Argentina (Argentina)
- 3. Comision de Investigaciones Cientificas Buenos Aires (CICBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina (Argentina)
- 4. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CC67 1900 La Plata, Argentina (Argentina)
- 5. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique Particules Elementaires, Universite de Paris 7, Tour 24-5 et., 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris CEDEX 05, France (France)
- 6. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, CC 67, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Description
We present a path-integral bosonization approach which allows us to take into account nontrivial topological sectors in two-dimensional models such as two-dimensional QCD. Because of the existence of fermionic zero modes, the partition function receives a contribution only from the topologically trivial (n=0) sector. However, certain fermionic correlation functions (constructed from chiral-charge-nonconserving operators) become nonvanishing when one takes into account n≠0 sectors
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 43
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 3508-3515
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22073780
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSON EXPANSION; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DIRAC OPERATORS; FERMIONS; FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SPACE-TIME; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; U-1 GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SYMMETRY GROUPS; U GROUPS