We demonstrate that the technique of Abelian bosonization through duality transformations can be extended to gauging anomalous symmetries. The example of a Dirac fermion theory is first illustrated. This idea is then also applied to bosonize a chiral fermion by gauging its chiral phase symmetry. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

• Received 1 September 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.53.2173