SMOOTH NON-ABELIAN BOSONIZATION

We present an extension of ''smooth bosonization'' to the non-Abelian case. We construct an enlarged theory containing both bosonic and ferm ionic fields which exhibits a local chiral gauge symmetry. A gauge fix ing function depending on one real parameter allows us to interpolate smoothly between a purely fermionic and a purely bosonic representatio n. The procedure is, in the special case of bosonization, complementar y to the approach based on duality.