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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.

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@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}
}

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To be published in Phys. Rev. D

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