INTERFERENCE PHENOMENON FOR DIFFERENT CHIRAL BOSONIZATION SCHEMES - ART. NO. 101701

We study, in the framework put forward by Siegel and by Floreanini and Jackiw (FJ), the relationship between different chiral bosonization s chemes (CBS). This is done in the context of the soldering formalism t hat considers the phenomenon of interference in the quantum field theo ry. We propose a field redefinition that discloses the presence of a n oton, a nonmover field, in Siegel's formulation for chiral bosons. The presence of a noton in the Siegel CBS is a new and surprising result that separates dynamics from symmetry. While the FJ component describe s the dynamics, it is the noton that carries the symmetry content, acq uiring dynamics upon quantization, and is fully responsible for the Si egel anomaly. The diagonal representation proposed here is used to stu dy the effect of quantum interference between gauged rightons and left ons. [S0556-2821(98)50222-6].