GAUGE INTERACTIONS AND BOSONIZED FERMION LIQUIDS

We investigate fermion liquids interacting with longitudinal and trans verse Abelian gauge fields via bosonization. In two spatial dimensions we obtain the fermion quasiparticle propagator for the specific case of a Coulomb plus Chern-Simons gauge action. In the Halperin-Lee-Read theory of the half-filled Landau level this action describes composite fermions moving in zero net magnetic field. We identify the novel non -Fermi-liquid fixed point which controls the low-energy nu = 1/2 physi cs and show how Kohn's theorem is satisfied.