Hamiltonian Formulation of the Smooth Bosonization and Local Gauge Symmetry of the Massless Thirring Model

Abstract

Using the hamiltonian formalism, we investigate the smooth bosonization method in which bosonization and fermionization are carried out through a specific gauge-fixing of an enlarged gauge invariant theory. The generator of the local gauge symmetry, which cannot be derived from the lagrangian of the enlarged theory, is obtained by making a canonical transformation. We also show that the massless Thirring model possesses a similar local gauge symmetry for a speific value of the coupling constant.