Covariant Photon Quantization in the SME
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
The Gupta Bleuler quantization procedure is applied to the SME photon sector. A direct application of the method to the massless case fails due to an unavoidable incompleteness in the polarization states. A mass term can be included into the photon lagrangian to rescue the quantization procedure and maintain covariance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.5890,
title = {Covariant Photon Quantization in the SME},
author = {Don Colladay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5890},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Presented at the Sixth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 17-21, 2013