Functional bosonization of a Dirac field in 2+1 dimensions, in the presence of a boundary
arXiv:1804.07206 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.05.032
Abstract
We apply the functional bosonization procedure to a massive Dirac field defined on a 2+1 dimensional spacetime which has a non-trivial boundary. We find the form of the bosonized current both for the bulk and boundary modes, showing that the gauge field in the bosonized theory contains a perfect-conductor boundary condition on the worldsheet spanned by the boundary. We find the bononized action for the corresponding boundary modes.
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