New remarks on the linear constraint self-dual boson and Wess-Zumino terms- art. no. 065003

In this work we prove in a precise way that the soldering formalism can be applied to the Srivastava chiral boson (SCB). in contradiction with some re sults appearing in the literature. We promote a canonical transformation th at shows directly that the SCB is composed of two Floreanini-Jackiw particl es with the same chirality in which the spectrum is a vacuumlike one. As an other conflicting result, we prove that a Wess-Zumino (WZ) term used in the literature consists of a scalar field, once again denying the assertion th at the WZ term adds a new degree of freedom to the SCB theory in order to m odify the physics of the system.