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Obtaining a light-like planar gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-08-16 v1

Abstract

In the usual and current understanding of planar gauge choices for Abelian and non Abelian gauge fields, the external defining vector nμn_\mu can either be space-like (n2<0n^2<0) or time-like (n2>0n^2>0) but not light-like (n2=0n^2=0). In this work we propose a light-like planar gauge that consists in defining a modified gauge-fixing term, LGF\cal{L}_{GF}, whose main characteristic is a two-degree violation of Lorentz covariance arising from the fact that four-dimensional space-time spanned entirely by null vectors as basis necessitates two light-like vectors, namely nμn_\mu and its dual mμm_\mu, with n2=m2=0,nm0n^2=m^2=0, n\cdot m\neq 0, say, e.g. normalized to nm=2n\cdot m=2.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0109205,
  title  = {Obtaining a light-like planar gauge},
  author = {Alfredo T. Suzuki and Ricardo Bentín},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0109205},
  year   = {2016}
}

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