A remark on the gauging of chiral bosons
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We study the interacting chiral boson and observe that a naive gauging procedure leaves the covariant chiral constraint incompatible with the field equations. Consistency, therefore, rules out most gauging schemes: in a left chiral scalar, only the coupling with the left chiral currents leads to consistent results, in discordance with current literature.
LATEX file, severely revised version, LATEX, 18 pages
LATEX file, severely revised version, LATEX, 18 pages