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Equivalence of Covariant and Light-Front Perturbation Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Light-Front Field Theory (LFFT) is a good candidate to describe bound states. In LFFT covariance is non-manifest. Burkardt and Langnau claim that, even for scattering amplitudes, rotational invariance is broken. We will take a different path of obtaining rules for light-front time-ordered diagrams. Covariance depends on the choice of a regulator α\alpha. We need to apply some regularisation scheme to render physical amplitudes finite. This is done by applying minus regularisation. In this process all ambiguities related to the regulator α\alpha are removed. Therefore there is equivalence between the perturbative expansions of covariant and LFFT.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9610361,
  title  = {Equivalence of Covariant and Light-Front Perturbation Theory},
  author = {N. C. J. Schoonderwoerd and B. L. G. Bakker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9610361},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages latex, uses epsf, epsfig, wrapfig. To appear in the Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on High-Energy Spin Physics Amsterdam Sept. 1996