Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-15-1994
Publication Title
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Keywords
Light-Cone Quantization, Dimensional Electrodynamics, Gauge Theory, Poincare Generators
Abstract
Discretized light-cone quantization of (3+1)-dimensional electrodynamics is discussed, with careful attention paid to the interplay between gauge choice and boundary conditions. In the zero longitudinal momentum sector of the theory a general gauge fixing is performed, and the corresponding relations that determine the zero modes of the gauge field are obtained. One particularly natural gauge choice in the zero mode sector is identified, for which the constraint relations are simplest and the fields may be taken to satisfy the usual canonical commutation relations. The constraints are solved in perturbation theory, and the Poincaré generators Pμ are constructed. The effect of the zero mode contributions on the one-loop fermion self-energy is studied.
First Page
5262
Last Page
5273
Volume
50
Issue
8
Repository Citation
Kalloniatis, Alex C. and Robertson, David G., "On the Discretized Light Cone Quantization of Electrodynamics" (1994). Physics Faculty Scholarship. 13.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/phys_fac/13
Original Citation
Kalloniatis, A.C. & Robertson, D.G. (1994). On the discretized light cone quantization of electrodynamics. Physical Review D, 50(8). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5262
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.5262
Version
Publisher's Version
Publisher's Statement
Copyright 1994 Physical Review D
Peer Reviewed
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.