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The Wilson loop in light-front quantization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-03-01 v1

Abstract

Using Dirac's method for the quantization of constrained systems QED is canonically quantized in the front-form in a gauge which is the light-front analog of the Weyl gauge. From the obtained vacuum wave functional the spatial Wilson loop is calculated. The result known from the canonical instant-form quantization or from the covariant path integral quantization is found only if the static limit x+0x^+ \to 0 is taken in a specific order. The same ambiguity is also found in the static photon propagator in coordinate space.

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@article{arxiv.1612.07740,
  title  = {The Wilson loop in light-front quantization},
  author = {Hugo Reinhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.07740},
  year   = {2017}
}
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