Effective Field Theory of Noncritical M-theory from Bosonization

arXiv:2607.05143 · hep-th, cond-mat.str-el · Submitted 2026-07-06 · Read on arXiv

hep-th, cond-mat.str-el

Submitted: 2026-07-06

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 64 pages plus appendices, 11 figures. v2: Expanded the derivation of the c=1 collective field action; corrected expressions for the cubic WZW term and density operators; other clarifications

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Bosonization — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 5× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Redundancy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unified Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Effective Field Theory (EFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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