Example of a Poincare anomaly in relativistic quantum mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
The Poincare algebra of classical electrodynamics in one spatial dimension is studied using light-cone coordinates and ordinary Minkowski coordinates. We show that it is possible to quantize the theory by a canonical quantization procedure in a Poincare invariant manner on the light-cone. We also show that this is not possible when using ordinary coordinates. The physical reason of this anomaly is analysed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9503219,
title = {Example of a Poincare anomaly in relativistic quantum mechanics},
author = {Stefan Lenz and Bernd Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9503219},
year = {2009}
}
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17 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures included