Light-Front Partons and Dimensional Reduction in Relativistic Field Theory
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-12-30 v2
Abstract
We present a simple discussion of the appearance of light-front partons in local field theory.The description in terms of partons provides a dimensional reduction which relates a 2+1 with a 3+1 dimensional theory for example. The possibility for existence of Lorentz symmetry and a connection to the relativistic membrane is described. It is shown how the reconstruction of the full relativistic field theory is possible with a proper treatment of the parton configuration space. Compared with the case of identical particles this involves keeping configurations where the partons are at the same points.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9712088,
title = {Light-Front Partons and Dimensional Reduction in Relativistic Field Theory},
author = {Antal Jevicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9712088},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, phyzzx, replaced version includes corrections to some minor misprints in original