Quantum electrodynamics in the null-plane causal perturbation theory II
High Energy Physics - Theory
2022-12-07 v1
Abstract
We develop a complete formulation of quantum gauge invariance in light-front dynamics for interacting theories with massless vector gauge fields in the framework of null-plane causal perturbation theory. We apply the general results to quantum electrodynamics, showing that the so-called "gauge terms" present in the photon commutation distribution when quantized under the null-plane gauge condition have no contribution in the calculation of the physical S-operator matrix elements at any order. We use this result to prove the normalizability of the theory, and to calculate the electron's self-energy at second order.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.07784,
title = {Quantum electrodynamics in the null-plane causal perturbation theory II},
author = {O. A. Acevedo and B. M. Pimentel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07784},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
To be published in Phys. Rev. D