NON-ABELIAN SOLITON OPERATORS

We construct soliton operators for the Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model with a chiral O(N)xO(N) invariance, and use them to derive non-Abelian bosonization properties directly. The soliton operators express the f ermion fields as nonlocal functions of the boson currents and provide a direct map from the boson to the fermion fields. With them we determ ine the fermion equivalent Lagrangian for level kappa = N together wit h the fermion bilinears equivalent to the boson fields. We generalize this construction to arbitrary values of the coupling constant and fin d the equivalent fermion model, which has current-current interactions .